'Heal' definitions:
Definition of 'heal'
From: WordNet
verb
Heal or recover; "My broken leg is mending" [syn: mend, heal]
verb
Get healthy again; "The wound is healing slowly"
verb
Provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" [syn: bring around, cure, heal]
Definition of 'Heal'
From: GCIDE
- Heal \Heal\ (h[=e]l), v. i. 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. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Heal'
From: GCIDE
- Heal \Heal\ (h[=e]l), v. t. [See Hele.] To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Heal'
From: GCIDE
- Heal \Heal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Healed (h[=e]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Healing.] [OE. helen, h[ae]len, AS. h[=ae]lan, fr. h[=a]l hale, sound, whole; akin to OS. h[=e]lian, 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. [1913 Webster]
- Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. --Matt. viii. 8. [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. --Hos. xiv. 4. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To restore to original purity or integrity. [1913 Webster]
- Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters. --2 Kings ii. 21. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Heal'
From: GCIDE
- Heal \Heal\, n. [AS. h[=ae]lu, h[=ae]l. See Heal, v. t.] Health. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'heal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bandage,
- bathe,
- bring around,
- bring round,
- care for,
- cicatrize,
- close up,
- cure,
- diagnose,
- doctor,
- flux,
- give care to,
- granulate,
- heal over,
- improve,
- knit,
- massage,
- mend,
- minister to,
- nurse,
- operate on,
- patch up,
- physic,
- plaster,
- poultice,
- pull round,
- purge,
- reconcile,
- recover,
- recuperate,
- recure,
- rejuvenate,
- remedy,
- renew,
- repair,
- restore,
- restore to health,
- revitalize,
- right itself,
- rub,
- scab over,
- set,
- settle,
- splint,
- strap,
- treat,
- work a cure