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Word entry · 11 letters

therapeutic

Best crossword clue

"Healing"

11 letters · collected on this word page

11 lettersPronunciation /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted aceehiprttuStarts with TEnds with C1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. tending to cure or restore to health

Word origin

From Middle English terapeucia, from New Latin therapeuticus (“curing, healing”), from Ancient Greek θεραπευτικός (therapeutikós, “attentive, helpful, obliging, curative”), from θεραπευτής (therapeutḗs, “one who waits on another, an attendant”), from θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “I wait on, attend, serve, cure”).

Used in a sentence

  • “We have been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver therapeutic cargo deep.
  • Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it.
  • His music is very therapeutic when you listen to it.

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