heal

[heal]

To heal is to recover or become healthy again. You'll need to wait until your blisters heal before you put your hiking boots back on and climb Mt. Everest.

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To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.

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"

Verb
get healthy again; "The wound is healing slowly"

Verb
heal or recover; "My broken leg is mending"


v. t.
To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.

v. t.
To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.

v. t.
To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.

v. t.
To restore to original purity or integrity.

v. t.
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.

v. i.
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.

v. t.
Health.


Heal

Heal, v. t. [See Hele.] To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. [Obs.]

Heal

Heal, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Healed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Healing.] [OE. helen, h'91len, AS. h'd6lan, fr. h'bel hale, sound, whole; akin to OS. h&emac;lian, 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.
2. To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.
I will heal their backsliding.
3. To restore to original purity or integrity.
Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters.
4. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.

Heal

Heal , v. i. 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.

Heal

Heal, n. [AS. hlu, hl. See Heal, v. t.] Health. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.

To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.

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.

Health.

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Usage Examples

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.

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