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vindeca

to heal /vin.deˈka/

verb#2984 most common

Also: to cure, to make well again

Example sentences

Doctorul vindecă bolnavii.
The doctor heals the sick.
Acest medicament vindecă durerea de cap.
This medicine cures headaches.
Rana lui s-a vindecat repede.
His wound healed quickly.
Timpul vindecă toate rănile, spune o zicală veche.
Time heals all wounds, an old saying goes.
Medicii sperau că noul tratament va vindeca pacienții de această boală rară.
The doctors hoped the new treatment would cure patients of this rare disease.
Deși mulți credeau că boala nu se poate vindeca, cercetătorii au demonstrat contrariul printr-un studiu riguros.
Although many believed the disease could not be healed, researchers proved the opposite through a rigorous study.

Conjugation

Present ActiveSimple Past ActiveSimple Future Active
1sgvindecvindecaivoi vindeca
2sgvindecivindecașivei vindeca
3sgvindecăvindecăva vindeca
1plvindecămvindecarămvom vindeca
2plvindecațivindecarățiveți vindeca
3plvindecăvindecarăvor vindeca

Word family

vindecarehealing, cure
vindecătorhealing, curative
vindecabilcurable
nevindecatunhealed
vindecare completăfull recovery

Etymology

Vindeca comes from Latin vindicare, a verb that originally meant to claim, to set free, or to avenge. In popular Latin the sense narrowed toward liberating someone from a wrong, and in Romanian this shifted further to liberating someone from illness, giving the modern meaning to heal. The same Latin root produced very different outcomes in other Romance languages, where it kept the legal or punitive sense instead.

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