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heal

SayHEEL/hil/UK/hiːl/

Verbheals, healing, healed

Noun pluralheals

7 meanings of heal

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  1. 1
    verbtransitive
    To make a sick or hurt person or animal well again.

    Like fixing a broken toy so it works again.

    Doctors worked hard to heal their patients during the outbreak.

    Rest and good food helped heal the injured dog.

    Similarcure, mend

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  2. 2
    verbintransitive
    To get well again after being sick or hurt.

    Like a scratch on your skin slowly closing up on its own.

    The cut on his knee healed in just a few days.

    Broken bones heal faster in young children.

    Similarmend, recover

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  3. 3
    verbfigurativelytransitive
    To fix a broken friendship or quarrel and make things good again.

    Like gluing two broken pieces back together so they hold.

    The apology helped heal the rift between the two families.

    Honest talk can heal a damaged friendship.

    Similarmend, repair, bridge

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  4. 4
    nouncountable
    In games, a spell or skill that brings back health or removes a bad effect.

    Like a power-up that fills your health bar back up.

    She cast a heal on the wounded knight just in time.

    One more heal will keep the whole team alive.

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  5. 5
    nouncountable or uncountableplural
    In games, the restoring of health or hit points to a character.

    Like water slowly filling up an empty tank.

    The support build offers strong heal but weak defense.

    Players stacked heal to survive the long raid.

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Less common meanings

  1. 6
    nounobsoleteuncountable
    Good health, or being well and free from sickness.
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  2. 7
    verbrare
    Rare form of hele. It means to hide or cover something up.
    "Heal, conceal and keep secret."
    1907, John. H. Brownell, Arthur Maurice SmithHere, heal means hide or cover up, keeping something secret.
    'I swear before God and all these witnesses that I will always heal, conceal and never reveal any art or part of this secret of horsemanry which is to be revealed to me at this time or any other time hereafter.'
    1998, Clive Richardson, The Horse BreakersHere, heal means hide or cover up, keeping the secret.
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Origin

From Old English hǣlan, meaning to heal, cure, or make whole. It is related to the word whole.