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healthening

healthening is the present participle and gerund of healthen.

Meaning of healthen

Verb

healthen (third-person singular simple present healthens, present participle healthening, simple past and past participle healthened)

  1. (transitive) To add health to; make whole or healthy; strengthen.
    • […] bartenders made useful citizens, and young men prepared to meet their responsibilities as men educated, healthened and rightened through it.1912, Association Men, volume 38, page 171

Questions about healthening

What is healthening the present participle and gerund of?
Healthening is the present participle and gerund of healthen.

Words near healthening in the dictionary

  1. healthcentres
  2. healthcraft
  3. healthe
  4. healthen
  5. healthened
  6. healthening
  7. healthens
  8. healthes
  9. healthfood
  10. healthfoods
  11. healthful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: healthening (page history and authors); healthen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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