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adjective

as in repaired

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verb

past tense of heal
1
as in cured
to restore to a healthy condition a low-fat vegetarian diet, moderate exercise, and stress management help heal a diseased heart heal the sick

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2
as in recovered
to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness most of the soldiers could go home while they were still healing from their wounds

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3
as in alleviated
to bring about recovery from time heals all wounds, even those of the heart

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Recent Examples of healed
Verb
But for Dolla $ign, time hasn’t healed the wound left by his close friend’s early departure. — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2026 Pickett appears 100% healed from injury and grabbed eight receptions for 134 yards, while Nik McMillan caught four passes for 89 yards and a score. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026 The Wolfpack went 2-7 in the regular season against a brutal schedule, but Reid Hites healed and returned to lead them on a three-game winning streak and Prep Bowl victory over Morgan Park. — Mike McGraw, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026 Snell is looking to make sure he is healed up for the postseason. — Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Judaism sees sin as a rupture that can be healed, not an inherent condition. — Reuven Kimelman, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026 Now that he is healed, Oatmeal has shown just how amazing special needs pets are. — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 18 Sep. 2026 Do not start any pelvic-floor device use, connected or not, until a clinician confirms you are healed enough. — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Sep. 2026 Matthews is fully healed after a long summer and recently hosted McKenna for dinner. — Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for healed
  1. repaired
  2. cured
  3. recovered
  4. alleviated
  5. mended
  6. rehabilitated
  7. relieved
  8. reconstructed
Adjective
  • The town will unveil the renovations next month and the improvements include a new paint job on the interior of the historic building, a repaired 19th-century chalkboard pulley system and repair of the several small holes in the roof.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Volunteers painted and repaired bleachers, replaced the chain-link fence in the outfield with a wooden one and painted the dugouts.
    — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026
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Verb
  • Cancer that is found at the earliest stages, like that of the pope, can be treated with surgery and cured for both smokers and nonsmokers.
    — Estelamari Rodriguez, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
  • There still exists in him the hope for a return to his idealistic notion of the box being a portal for dimensional advancement, where diseases could be cured, peace could be achieved, and a techno-utopia might be possible across all worlds.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of cured
Verb
  • The investigation resulted in a 2022 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago that recovered classified records, and a federal indictment in Florida charged Trump with dozens of felony counts.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • According to a criminal complaint, knives recovered by investigators on scene did not match knives belonging to the resort.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of recovered
Verb
  • There are no guarantees that polling’s troubles – and persistent popular skepticism about the dependability of election polls – will be alleviated anytime soon.
    — W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Woman after woman told USA TODAY that physicians never talked to their mothers who had become seriously ill or died about vaginal estrogen, something that would have alleviated their painful UTIs – and ultimately prevented them in the first place.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of alleviated
Adjective
  • Punk’s jump to WWE came with a lot of mended fences, and there have been little-to-no significant stories about Punk’s backstage issues in a WWE locker room since his 2023 return.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • But over the years, the two mended fences.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
Definition of mended
Verb
  • As of Saturday, the ministry said, more than 270 wild animals in Indonesia's part of Borneo had been rescued, rehabilitated or guided to safer habitats, including 46 orangutans rescued by YIARI.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Along Central Avenue, the nonprofit New Life Homes rehabilitated Luna Lodge into 30 affordable apartments in 2013 and reopened the Sundowner as 71 mixed-income apartments the following year.
    — Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of rehabilitated
Verb
  • When a county judge put the brakes on what would be the largest data center in California, ruling the whole project needed extensive environmental review, Kristian Salgado was relieved.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The White Sox loaded the bases in the sixth inning before Erik Sabrowski relieved Williams and struck out Murakami.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of relieved
Adjective
  • Patrick Mahomes finished the job by scrambling up the middle, simultaneously giving the Chiefs an early lead and quieting some doubts about his reconstructed ACL and LCL.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The reconstructed Florida State offense will be built around QB Ashton Daniels and RB Quintrevion Wisner, both arriving via the portal seeking fresh starts.
    — Eddie Timanus, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of reconstructed

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“Healed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/healed. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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