therapy

Pronunciation

• enPR: thĕrʹə-pē, IPA ^(key): /ˈθɛr.ə.pi/

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Noun

Singular therapy

Plural therapies

1. Therapy is the treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.

   My grandfather's therapy will start at the hospital at noon tomorrow.

2. Healing power or quality.

Verb

Plain form therapy

Third-person singular therapies

Past tense therapied

Past participle therapied

Present participle therapying

1. (transitive) To treat with a therapy.
2. (intransitive) To undergo a therapy.

Related words

• therapeutic
• therapist