healing

healing — noun

1. the body's natural work of repairing damaged skin, bone, or tissue after a cut,

1.名詞B2
釋義

the body's natural work of repairing damaged skin, bone, or tissue after a cut, burn, broken arm, or other injury, so that the part returns to a working state.

例句

Doctors told Kwame that the healing of his broken leg would take at least eight weeks.

healing of + body part

Eating plenty of protein and vitamin C can help speed up the healing of a deep wound.

speed up the healing

同義詞
  • recovery

    broader; covers any return to health, including illness as well as injury

  • mending

    more informal; everyday word for the same idea, often used about bones

反義詞
  • deterioration

    the opposite — the body getting worse instead of better

文法句型

healing of + body part / wound

promote / speed up healing

用法筆記

Uncountable in this sense — never use 'a healing' or 'healings'. The most common framing is 'the healing of [a body part or wound]' or 'speed up / slow down healing'. Distinguish from sense 2: this sense is strictly about physical bodies and injuries.

常見錯誤

❌The doctor checked the healings on my arm.
✅The doctor checked how the healing was going on my arm.
💡'healing' is uncountable; it has no plural.
❌I have a healing on my finger.
✅The cut on my finger is still healing.
💡for the actual mark you mean 'cut' or 'wound'; 'healing' is the process, not the mark.

2. the slow, often years-long process by which a person, family, or community recov

2.名詞C1
釋義

the slow, often years-long process by which a person, family, or community recovers from grief, abuse, war, or another deeply painful experience, so that life starts to feel possible again.

例句

Therapy gave Christopher the safe space he needed to begin the long healing after his divorce.

healing after + painful event

True healing from childhood abuse can take many years and is rarely a straight line.

healing from + cause

同義詞
  • recovery

    more clinical; common in mental-health writing for the same idea

  • closure

    narrower; a specific feeling of an event being finally finished, not the whole process

文法句型

healing after / from + difficult experience

begin / need healing

用法筆記

Distinguish from sense 1: this sense is about emotions, relationships, or whole communities, never the body. Often paired with 'after' or 'from' plus the painful event ('healing after the loss', 'healing from trauma'). Frequent in counselling, religious, and journalistic writing.

常見錯誤

❌Healing of his sadness took two years.
✅Healing from his sadness took two years.
💡for the emotional sense use 'from' or 'after', not 'of'.
❌She is doing a healing for her past.
✅She is working on her healing from the past.
💡'doing a healing' sounds like a one-off ritual; the regular noun is uncountable.

healing — adjective