Healthen

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To add health to; make whole or healthy; strengthen. transitive

    "[…] bartenders made useful citizens, and young men prepared to meet their responsibilities as men educated, healthened and rightened through it."

Example

More examples

"[…] bartenders made useful citizens, and young men prepared to meet their responsibilities as men educated, healthened and rightened through it."

Etymology

From health + -en.

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