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Heal vs Recure - What's the difference?

heal | recure |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between heal and recure

is that heal is (obsolete) health while recure is (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery.

As verbs the difference between heal and recure

is that heal is to hide; conceal; keep secret or heal can be to make better from a disease, wound, etc; to revive or cure while recure is (obsolete) to cure, heal.

As nouns the difference between heal and recure

is that heal is (obsolete) health while recure is (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery.

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 ----

    recure

    English

    Verb

    (recur)
  • (obsolete) To cure, heal.
  • * Lydgate
    • No medicine might avail his sickness to recure .
  • (obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.v:
  • *:Phoebus pure / In westerne waues his wearie wagon did recure .
  • (obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
  • *:By this he had sweet life recur'd agayne [...].
  • To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
    • (Lydgate)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery
  • * Fairfax
    • But whom he hite, without recure he dies.