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sanare

to heal

verb sah-NAH-reh Rare

Origin: From Latin 'sanare', from 'sanus' (healthy).

Also means

to settle (a debt)

Usage Note

Sanare has a medical sense (to cure a wound or illness) and a financial/legal sense (to regularize or settle — sanare un debito means to clear a debt, sanare una situazione to remedy a situation). In bureaucratic Italian it also means to retroactively legalize something irregular (sanare un abuso edilizio). It takes avere as auxiliary.

Examples

"Il medico ha sanato la ferita."

Natural Translation

The doctor healed the wound.

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