heal
(verb) get healthy again; “The wound is healing slowly”
mend, heal
(verb) heal or recover; “My broken leg is mending”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
heal (third-person singular simple present heals, present participle healing, simple past and past participle healed)
(transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
(intransitive) To become better or healthy again.
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
• (make better): cure, make whole
• (become better): get better, recover
heal (countable and uncountable, plural heals)
(RPG, countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
(obsolete, uncountable) health
heal (third-person singular simple present heals, present participle healing, simple past and past participle healed)
(rare) Alternative form of hele (“conceal”).
• Aleh, Hale, Hela, Leah, hale
Heal (plural Heals)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Heal is the 14827th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1999 individuals. Heal is most common among White (81.24%) and Hispanic/Latino (10.06%) individuals.
• Aleh, Hale, Hela, Leah, hale
Source: Wiktionary
Heal, v. t. Etym: [See Hele.]
Definition: To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. [Obs.]
Heal, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Healed; p. pr. & vb. n. Healing.] Etym: [OE. helen, hælen, AS. hælan, fr. hal hale, sound, whole; akin to OS. helian, D. heelen, G. heilen, Goth. hailjan. See Whole.]
1. To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health. Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. Matt. viii. 8.
2. To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound. I will heal their backsliding. Hos. xiv. 4.
3. To restore to original purity or integrity. Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters. 2 Kings ii. 21.
4. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.
Heal, v. i.
Definition: 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. Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves. Shak.
Heal, n. Etym: [AS. h, h. See Heal, v. t.]
Definition: Health. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 November 2024
(noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
