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Medicate vs Heal - What's the difference?

medicate | heal |

As verbs the difference between medicate and heal

is that medicate is to prescribe or administer medication while heal is to hide; conceal; keep secret or heal can be to make better from a disease, wound, etc; to revive or cure.

As a noun heal is

(obsolete) health.

medicate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To prescribe or administer medication.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    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

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