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therapy

Meaning in simple English

US /ˈθɛrəpi/ · UK /ˈθerəpi/

therapy means: Treatment that helps someone recover from an illness, injury, or problem with their body or mind.

noun

HEALTH TREATMENTB2

Treatment that helps someone recover from an illness, injury, or problem with their body or mind.

  • Therapy helped him walk again.
  • She attends speech therapy twice a week.
  • Have you considered therapy for your anxiety?

How to use it: therapy for something (She receives therapy for her anxiety.)

Similar words: treatment

Common phrases: physical therapy, speech therapy, receive therapy, therapy session

HEALING EFFECTC1

The ability of an activity or experience to help you feel better or become healthier.

  • For me, gardening is therapy.
  • He welcomed the quiet therapy of a walk by the sea.
  • The therapy of laughter helped us through a difficult week.

How to use it: the therapy of something (She found comfort in the therapy of gardening.)

Similar words: healing, comfort

Common phrases: therapy of music, therapy of laughter, therapy of nature

verb

GIVE TREATMENTC2

To give someone treatment for a problem with their body or mind.

  • The team will therapy the patient.
  • The specialist therapied him for several weeks.
  • She was therapied at a clinic near her home.

Similar words: treat

Common phrases: therapy someone, therapy a patient

RECEIVE TREATMENTC2

To receive treatment intended to improve your physical or mental health.

  • We therapy together every week.
  • She therapied for months after the accident.
  • He continues to therapy while recovering.

Similar words: undergo treatment

Common phrases: therapy weekly, therapy together

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