Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To restore to health or soundness; cure.
- intransitive verb To ease or relieve (emotional distress).
- intransitive verb To set right; repair.
- intransitive verb To recover from an illness or injury; return to health.
- intransitive verb To experience relief from emotional distress.
- intransitive verb To be relieved or eliminated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Health; well-being.
- To hide; conceal; keep secret.
- To cover, as for protection.
- To cover (the roots of trees and plants), usually in an inclined or slanting position, with soil, after they have been taken out of the ground, and before setting them permanently: generally used with in.
- A variant spelling of
heel . - To make whole or sound; restore to health or soundness; cure: as, to
heal the sick. - To restore to wholesome conditions; remove something evil or noxious from: purify; cleanse; strengthen.
- To remedy; remove, repair, or counteract by salutary or beneficial means: as, to
heal a quarrel or a breach. - To grow whole or sound; return to a sound state: with reference to a wound, sometimes with up or over.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
- intransitive verb To grow sound; to return to a sound state; ; -- sometimes with
up orover . - transitive verb To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.
- transitive verb To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.
- transitive verb To restore to original purity or integrity.
- transitive verb To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to
heal dissensions. - noun obsolete Health.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
hide ;conceal ; keepsecret . - verb transitive To
cover , as forprotection . - verb transitive To make better; to
revive ,recover , orcure . - verb intransitive To become better.
- noun obsolete
health
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb get healthy again
- verb provide a cure for, make healthy again
- verb heal or recover
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Thou promisest to heal their waters, but _their miry places and standing waters_, thou sayest there, _thou wilt not heal_. [
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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The English word heal appears in this passage, as the Greek word iomai, meaning “cure.”
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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The English word heal appears in this passage, as the Greek word iomai, meaning “cure.”
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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The English word heal appears in this passage, as the Greek word iomai, meaning “cure.”
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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The English word heal appears in this passage, as the Greek word iomai, meaning “cure.”
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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I am so encouraged to hear that it is helping people all across the country to heal from the ravages of child abuse.
Book Promotion: 5 top tips for being on TV and lessons from a TV appearance | The Creative Penn 2009
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We cannot heal from the scourge of christianity until we are honest about some of its worse perpetrators.
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The wound would heal from the inside out -- they call it healing by secondary intention, and if you think I haven't tried to write a poem with that fabulously symbolic phrase in it, you don't know me very well.
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And we were able to give each other enough space to heal from the wounds we inflicted upon ourselves and each other.
Odin's Day shiftercat 2009
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For me, sharing my pain with the world is how I was able to heal from a lot of hurt in my life.
When Should You Use Your Personal Pain In Your Writing? | The Creative Penn 2009
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He offers some practical solutions like redshirting boys in school for a year and incentivizing men to go into HEAL career trajectories (health, education, administration, literacy), but doesn’t address why boys and men are loathe to pick up this thread in the first place.
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? Celeste Davis 2024
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He offers some practical solutions like redshirting boys in school for a year and incentivizing men to go into HEAL career trajectories (health, education, administration, literacy), but doesn’t address why boys and men are loathe to pick up this thread in the first place.
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? Celeste Davis 2024
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