heal
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (3)heals, healed, healing
- heal or recover“My broken leg is mending”Synonyms: mendMore general better, improve
- get healthy again“The wound is healing slowly”More general better, improveMore specific scab, skin over, granulate
- provide a cure for, make healthy again“The treatment cured the boy's acne”“The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to”Synonyms: bring aroundcureMore general help, aidMore specific recuperateInvolves treat, care for
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Translations
Verb make better
Verb become better
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: See Hele.
To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. obsolete
Origin: OE. helen, hælen, AS. hǣlan, fr. hāl hale, sound, whole; akin to OS. hēlian, D. heelen, G. heilen, Goth. hailjan. See Whole.
1. To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.
Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.— Matt. viii. 8.
2. To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; — said of a disease or a wound.
I will heal their backsliding.— Hos. xiv. 4.
3. To restore to original purity or integrity.
Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters.— 2 Kings ii. 21.
4. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.
To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; — sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over.
Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves.— William Shakespeare
Origin: AS. hǣlu, hǣl. See Heal, transitive verb
Health. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54