healed
- 1Simple past and past participle of heal.
The deep gash healed cleanly and left only a faint scar.
Once the infection cleared, the damaged tissue had healed within weeks.
Note
A regular past form that does double duty, and the auxiliary it takes follows the verb's two lives. Where heal is transitive, someone cures someone, and the participle builds passives: the patient was healed. Where it is intransitive, the wound mends on its own and takes have: the cut has healed. Figuratively it covers mended breaches too (old quarrels healed). In rare use it can even mean concealed, as a variant of hele.
The patient was healed by the new treatment.
Time has healed the rift between the two brothers.
healed is a form of heal
heal, verb: To make someone better from a disease or wound; to cure or revive. Full entry
- Spelling
- heal → healed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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