heals
- 1Third-person singular simple present of heal.
A shallow scrape heals faster than a deep gash because less tissue has to regrow.
Rest and good nutrition help ensure that a broken bone heals properly.
Note
One spelling serves two constructions. Without an object, the body or the thing does the mending itself: a scrape heals, a bone heals properly. With an object, someone or something mends another: a doctor heals the sick. The transitive use also stretches to people and relationships, as in a gesture that heals a rift between friends. A rare older verb meaning "conceal" once shared the spelling, but today the word almost always means mending.
heals is a form of heal
heal, verb: To make someone better from a disease or wound; to cure or revive. Full entry
- Spelling
- heal → heals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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