HEALED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does healed mean? 

• HEALED (adjective)
  The adjective HEALED has 1 sense:

1. freed from illness or injury

  Familiarity information: HEALED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freed from illness or injury

Synonyms:

cured; healed; recovered

Context example:

when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium

Similar:

well (in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury)

 Context examples 

Certainly not, not for a week at least; longer if the wound is not healed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His arm, by the way, has healed nicely, though the scar will remain all his life.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Treatment with daily applications of green clay poultices healed the infections.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

After some weeks my wound healed, and I continued my journey.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I have the pleasure, madam, (to Mrs. Bates,) of restoring your spectacles, healed for the present.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He laughed as he spoke, but the laugh was not natural, and a shade passed over his face, for the utterance of the familiar name touched the wound that was not healed yet.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Ten years since, I flew through Europe half mad; with disgust, hate, and rage as my companions: now I shall revisit it healed and cleansed, with a very angel as my comforter.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I would fain that you should tarry at our court, for a time at least, until your hurt is healed and your horses rested.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When they came to their journey’s end, the youngest son brought his cup to the sick king, that he might drink and be healed.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At the end of that time the lynx was devoured, while the she-wolf's wounds had healed sufficiently to permit her to take the meat-trail again.

(White Fang, by Jack London)