heal
To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
Verb 3 meanings
To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
“This bandage will help to heal your cut.”
To become better or healthy again.
“Bandages allow cuts to heal.”
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
“to heal dissensions”
Noun 2 meanings
A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
Healing; an instance of restoration of health or hit points.
“Give me heals! I need healing!”
Etymology
From Middle English helen, from Old English hǣlan (“to heal, cure, save, greet, salute”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailijan, from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną (“to heal, make whole, save”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). Derived from the adjective at hand in whole.
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HEAL at a glance
HEAL has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (H 4 + E 1 + A 1 + L 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,789 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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