Definition of 'heal'
Word forms: heals, healing, healed
1. transitive verb/intransitive verb
When a broken bone or other injury heals, or if someone or something heals it, it becomes healthy and normal again.
Within six weeks the bruising had gone, but it was six months before it all healed.
2. transitive verb/intransitive verb
If you heal something such as a rift or a wound, or if it heals, the situation is put right so that people are friendly or happy again.
We have begun to heal the wounds of war in our society.
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Word Frequency
heal in American English
verb intransitive
5.
to become well or healthy again; be cured
6.
to become closed or scarred
said of a wound SIMILAR WORDS: cure
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Word Frequency
heal in British English
verb
2. (intr; often foll by over or up)
3. (transitive)
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Derived forms
healable (ˈhealable) adjective
healer (ˈhealer)
noun
healing (ˈhealing)
noun, adjective
Word origin
Old English hælan; related to Old Norse heila, Gothic hailjan, Old High German heilen; see hale1, wholeExamples of 'heal' in a sentence
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British English: heal
/hiːl/ VERB
When an injury such as a broken bone heals, it becomes healthy and normal again.
It will take three to four weeks before the fracture fully heals.
- American English: heal
- Arabic: يَشْفِي
- Brazilian Portuguese: cicatrizar
- Chinese: 愈合
- Croatian: zacijeliti
- Czech: hojit se
- Danish: hele
- Dutch: genezen
- European Spanish: curar
- Finnish: parantua sairaudesta
- French: guérir
- German: heilen
- Greek: θεραπεύω
- Italian: guarire
- Japanese: 治る
- Korean: (상처 등이) 낫다
- Norwegian: helbrede
- Polish: zagoić
- European Portuguese: cicatrizar
- Romanian: a vindeca
- Russian: вылечивать
- Spanish: curar
- Swedish: läka
- Thai: รักษา
- Turkish: iyileşmek
- Ukrainian: загоюватися
- Vietnamese: hàn gắn
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