guarish

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verb

To heal or cure.

OriginOld French guarir ← Proto-Germanic *warjaną →
First used 15th–16th c.Scrabble 11
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Meanings

verbguarish (third-person singular simple present guarishes, present participle guarishing, simple past and past participle guarished)

present singular third person guarishes · participle present guarishing · participle past guarished · past guarished

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo heal or cure.First known use 15th–16th c.

    [T]he Mayd / His readie vvound with better ſalues new dreſt, / Daily ſhe dreſſed him, and did the beſt / His grieuous hurt to guariſh, that ſhe might, […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 41, page 473

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*warjaną
  2. Old Frenchguarir
  3. Englishguarish

From the stem of Old French guarir, garir, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną.

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APA

guarish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guarish

MLA

“guarish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guarish. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “guarish,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guarish.

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