heal in English dictionary

  • heal

    Meanings and definitions of "heal"

    • (transitive) To make better; to revive, recover, or cure.
    • (intransitive) To become better.
    • noun
      (role-playing games, countable)
      A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
    • noun
      (obsolete, uncountable)
      health
    • verb
      (transitive, obsolete or dialectal)
      To hide; conceal; keep secret.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To cover, as for protection.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To become better.
    • verb
      To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
    • To remedy an illness using medical or medicamentous treatment; to provide a cure for.
    • To get healthy again.
    • (to) heal
    • Heal or recover, e.g. by forming a scar.
    • make better
    • become better
    • verb
      get healthy again; "The wound is healing slowly"
    • verb
      heal or recover; "My broken leg is mending"
    • verb
      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 of "heal" in English dictionary

    better, help, ameliorate are the top synonyms of "heal" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of heal

    • heal ( third-person singular simple present heals or ( archaic) healeth, present participle healing, simple past and past participle healed)
    • heal (countable and uncountable, plural heals)
    • heal (third-person singular simple present heals, present participle healing, simple past hole or healed, past participle holen or healed)
    • heal (third-person singular simple present heals, present participle healing, simple past and past participle healed)
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