healthen
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[edit]healthen (third-person singular simple present healthens, present participle healthening, simple past and past participle healthened)
- (transitive) To add health to; make whole or healthy; strengthen.
- 1912, Association Men, volume 38, page 171:
- […] bartenders made useful citizens, and young men prepared to meet their responsibilities as men educated, healthened and rightened through it.