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Another word for heal
VerbTo make well or sound
Synonym Study
- Remedy stresses the use of medication or a specific corrective treatment in relieving disease, injury, distress, etc.
- Heal and cure both imply a restoring to health or soundness, with heal usually applied to the making or becoming whole of a wound, sore, etc. or, figuratively, the mending of a breach, and cure specifically suggesting the elimination of disease, distress, evil, etc.
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