Why this word is great
GUARISH — [Verb] To heal or cure, especially from a wound or illness. From Anglo-Norman, borrowed from the stem of Old French guarir, garir ("to heal, protect"), itself ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną ("to ward off, defend"). Unlike "cure," which declares a definitive, clinical victory, or "mend," which applies as readily to pottery as to people, to guarish is the patient, vigilant work of defensive restoration. It is the slow knitting of flesh beneath clean linen, the drawing of fever from a flushed brow by night-long vigil, and the steady return of strength to a limb long kept still—a quiet, temporary triumph against the persistent grammar of decay.