1. heal(v = verb.change) mend - heal or recover; "My broken leg is mending"
is one way to ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate
Derived form noun healing1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s; Somebody ----s
2. heal(v = verb.body) - get healthy again; "The wound is healing slowly"
is one way to ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate
Derived form noun healing1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s; Somebody's (body part) ----s
3. heal(v = verb.body) bring around, cure - provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
is one way to aid, help
Derived form noun healer1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody
To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. [1913 Webster]
1. To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health. [1913 Webster]
"Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed." [1913 Webster]
2. To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound. [1913 Webster]
"I will heal their backsliding." [1913 Webster]
3. To restore to original purity or integrity. [1913 Webster]
"Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters." [1913 Webster]
4. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to
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. [1913 Webster]
"Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves." [1913 Webster]
Health. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
heal, v.
1 intr. (often foll. by up) (of a wound or injury) become sound or healthy again.
2 tr. cause (a wound, disease, or person) to heal or be healed.
3 tr. put right (differences etc.).
4 tr. alleviate (sorrow etc.).
Idiom:
heal-all
1 a universal remedy, a panacea.
2 a popular name of various medicinal plants.
Derivative:
healable adj. healer n.
Etymology:
OE h{aelig}lan f. Gmc, rel. to WHOLE
VB return to the original state, recover, rally, revive, come come to, come round, come to oneself, pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again, get well, get round, get the better of, get over, get about, rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave, survive, resume, reappear, come to, come to life again, live again, rise again, heal, skin over, cicatrize, right itself, restore, put back, place in statu quo, reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall, reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute, reconvert, renew, renovate, regenerate, rejuvenate, redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve, rescue, redress, recure, cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate, break of, bring round, set on one's legs, resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life, reproduce, warm up, reinvigorate, refresh, make whole, redintegrate, recoup, make good, make all square, rectify, correct, put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight, set up, put in order, refit, recruit, fill up, fill up the ranks, reinforce, repair, put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair, retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble, do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up, darn, finedraw, heelpiece, stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds, return to the original state, recover, rally, revive, come come to, come round, come to oneself, pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again, get well, get round, get the better of, get over, get about, rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave, survive, resume, reappear, come to, come to life again, live again, rise again, heal, skin over, cicatrize, right itself, restore, put back, place in statu quo, reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall, reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute, reconvert, renew, renovate, regenerate, rejuvenate, redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve, rescue, redress, recure, cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate, break of, bring round, set on one's legs, resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life, reproduce, warm up, reinvigorate, refresh, make whole, redintegrate, recoup, make good, make all square, rectify, correct, put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight, set up, put in order, refit, recruit, fill up, fill up the ranks, reinforce, repair, put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair, retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble, do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up, darn, finedraw, heelpiece, stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.