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Heal vs Curing - What's the difference?

heal | curing |

As verbs the difference between heal and curing

is that heal is to hide; conceal; keep secret while curing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between heal and curing

is that heal is health while curing is the act by which something is cured.

heal

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) helen, hilen, from (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) * (l) (Scotland)

Verb

  • To hide; conceal; keep secret.
  • To cover, as for protection.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) helen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

  • To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
    • This bandage will heal your cut.
  • * Bible, Matthew viii. 8
    • Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed .
  • To become better.
    • Bandages allow cuts to heal .
  • To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
    • to heal dissensions
    Synonyms
    * (make better) cure, make whole * (become better) get better, recover
    Derived terms
    * healable * healand, Healand * healer * health

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) health
    • (Chaucer)

    Anagrams

    * * English ergative verbs ----

    curing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is cured.
  • * 1988 , Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy (page 183)
    • As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.