Healed vs Detriment - What's the difference?
healed | detriment |
(heal)
To hide; conceal; keep secret.
To cover, as for protection.
To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
* Bible, Matthew viii. 8
To become better.
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
(obsolete) health
Harm, hurt, damage.
* {{quote-book
, year=1872
, author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky
, title=The Possessed
, chapter=7
(UK, obsolete) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
As a verb healed
is (heal).As a noun detriment is
detriment.healed
English
Verb
(head)heal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) helen, hilen, from (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) * (l) (Scotland)Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) helen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- This bandage will heal your cut.
- Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed .
- Bandages allow cuts to heal .
- to heal dissensions
Synonyms
* (make better) cure, make whole * (become better) get better, recoverDerived terms
* healable * healand, Healand * healer * healthNoun
(-)- (Chaucer)
Anagrams
* * English ergative verbs ----detriment
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“But marriage in secret, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch — a fatal secret. I receive money from you, and I'm suddenly asked the question, 'What's that money for?' My hands are tied; I cannot answer to the detriment of my sister, to the detriment of the family honour.”}}