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healthen

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Etymology

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From health +‎ -en.

Verb

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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.
    • 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.