Heal

//hil// name, noun, verb

name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment. countable

    "Also, various interesting spells have been added—for instance, with the Orb spell, you can circle a character, firing offensive bolts or casting heals, and free up a mage-type to cast other spells or even melee."

  2. 2
    Healing; an instance of restoration of health or hit points. countable, in-plural, uncountable

    "Give me heals! I need healing!"

  3. 3
    health obsolete, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. transitive

    "This bandage will help to heal your cut."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of hele (“conceal”). alt-of, alternative, rare

    ""Heal, conceal and keep secret.""

  3. 3
    provide a cure for, make healthy again wordnet
  4. 4
    To become better or healthy again. intransitive

    "Bandages allow cuts to heal."

  5. 5
    get healthy again wordnet
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  1. 6
    To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt. figuratively, transitive

    "to heal dissensions"

  2. 7
    heal or recover wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

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bring aroundcurecuremendbandagebathe

Example

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"The cut will heal up in a few days."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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. Cognates Cognate with Scots hale, hail (“to heal”), Saterland Frisian heila, heilen (“to heal”), West Frisian hielje, Dutch helen (“to heal”), German heilen (“to heal”), Danish hele, Swedish hela (“to heal”), and further Russian цели́ть (celítʹ, “to heal”), Polish calić (“to save”), Czech celit (“to heal”), Serbo-Croatian céliti (“to heal”).

Etymology 2

See hele.

Etymology 3

English surname, variant of Hale.

Related phrases

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