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heal

/ˈhiːl/verb1 syllable

Heal means: provide a cure for, make healthy again.

Synonyms for heal3

verb, as in provide a cure for, make healthy again

bring around, cure

verb, as in heal or recover

What does heal mean?3

verb

1

provide a cure for, make healthy again“The treatment cured the boy's acne”

2

heal or recover“My broken leg is mending”

3

get healthy again“The wound is healing slowly”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with heal?24

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Heal in a sentence

  • To heal the body you have to heal the spirit, and vice versa.Adelpa
  • The sadness continues to linger, urging me to find a way to heal.Nuel
  • If it doesn't heal after a week, a doctor's diagnosis is necessary.tsp_2
  • In older people, wounds take a long time to heal.Source_VOA
  • Apologizing isn't going to heal hundreds of second-degree burns, sir.papabear
  • For the elderly, wounds take more time to heal.AlanF_US
  • Time may not heal your wounds, but it might anesthetize them.AlanF_US
  • People say that time heals all wounds, but that's wrong: some wounds never heal.sundown

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of heal

as a verb

past tense
healed
present participle
healing
third-person singular
heals
past participle
healed