heal
Plural: heals
Verb
Verb Forms: healed, healing, heals
- To make or become sound or healthy again; to cure.
- heal or recover
- get healthy again
- "The wound is healing slowly"
- provide a cure for, make healthy again
- "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
- To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
- To become better or healthy again.
- To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
- Alternative form of hele (“conceal”).
Noun
- A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
- health
Examples
- Bandages allow cuts to heal.
- He hoped a few good plays would HEAL the deficit created by his earlier blunder.
- This bandage will help to heal your cut.
- to heal a broken heart
- to heal dissensions
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English helen, from Old English hǣlan (“to heal, cure, save, greet, salute”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailijan, from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną (“to heal, make whole, save”), from Proto-Indo-European *koyl- (“safe, unharmed”). Derived from the adjective at hand in whole.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots hale, hail (“to heal”), Saterland Frisian heila, heilen (“to heal”), West Frisian hielje, Dutch helen (“to heal”), German heilen (“to heal”), Danish hele, Swedish hela (“to heal”), and further Russian цели́ть (celítʹ, “to heal”), Polish calić (“to save”), Czech celit (“to heal”), Serbo-Croatian céliti (“to heal”).
Scrabble Score: 7
heal: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordheal: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
heal: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary