heal
/ˈhiːl/
heal verb: to make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. Also the alternative form of hele.
Verb
heal (third-person singular simple present heals, present participle healing, simple past and past participle healed)
- To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
- This bandage will help to heal your cut.
- Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 8:8
- To become better or healthy again.
- Bandages allow cuts to heal.
- Synonyms:
- get better, recover, mend
- To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
- to heal dissensions
- to heal a broken heart
Noun
heal (countable and uncountable, plural heals)
- A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
- 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.2004, Computer Gaming World, volumes 234-237, page 81
- The following macro checks whether our current target is friendly and casts a heal on it if so; otherwise it casts the heal on the target's target […]2009, Paul Emmerich, Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-ons, page 351
- Healing; an instance of restoration of health or hit points.
- Give me heals! I need healing!
- health
Proper noun capitalized: Heal
Heal (plural Heals)
- A surname.
Also used as
heal is also the alternative form of hele.
heal meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
heal in Tamil
- become better
- ஆறு āṟu
heal in Marathi
- make better
- बरे करणे bare karṇe
- become better
- बरे होणे bare hoṇe
heal in Urdu
- شفا بخشنا
heal in Bengali
- নিরাময় করা
More languagesFewer languages
- heal in Malayalam
- സുഖപ്പെടുത്താൻ, സൌഖ്യമാക്കാൻ
- heal in Kannada
- ಗುಣವಾಗಲು
- heal in Punjabi
- ਤੰਦਰੁਸਤੀ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- heal in Gujarati
- સાજો કરવા માટે
- heal in Sanskrit
- भिषक्ति bhiṣakti
- heal in Nepali
- निको पार्नुहोस्, निको पार्न, निको गर्न
- heal in Arabic
- شَفَى šafā, شُفِيَ šufiya, اِشْتَفَى ištafā
- heal in Persian
- درمان کردن darmân kardan, شفا دادن šafâ dâdan, بهبود دادن behbud dâdan
- heal in Vietnamese
- thương, chữa thương, chữa lành
Examples of heal in a sentence
- The weak spot in English spelling, however, can be easily healed with the global alphabet.1945, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations, Global Alphabet: Hearing Before the Committee..., page 69:
- Synner, a priest walking by, sees her struggling and casts a heal on her.2012, Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire, Sasha Barab, Games, Learning, and Society:
Synonyms of heal
Forms of heal
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | heals |
| present participle | healing |
| past participle | healed |
| past | healed |
| Noun | |
| plural | heals |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Heals |
Origin of heal
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”).
See hele.
English surname, variant of Hale.
Words formed from heal
- allheal
- all-heal
- all-healing
- crystal healing
- healable
- heal-all
- healand
- heal and draw
- healee
- healer
- healful
- healing crisis
- healing lodge
- healless
- heal over
- healsome
- health
- heal up
- healy-feely
- horseheal
- misheal
- outheal
- overheal
- physician, heal thyself
- reheal
- selfheal
- self-heal
- spiritual healing
- time heals all wounds
- underheal
- healslut
Phrases with heal
Words that rhyme with heal
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- keel
- anneal
- creel
- peal
- peel
- sweal
- congeal
- Izmail
- kneel
- meal
- Neale
- streal
- weal
- awheel
- Castile
- cochineal
- feal
- Lille
- ordeal
- repeal
- sele
- squeal
- teal
- zeal
- ceil
- debile
- dishabille
- hele
- leal
- lifesteal
- Neil
- Niel
- O'Neill
- reveal
- schlemiel
- seel
- she'll
- shiel
- skeel
- spiel
- square meal
- unseal
- veal
- we'll
- weel
- ye'll
- -meal
- allele
Questions about heal
- What does heal mean?
- Heal means to make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
- What is heal in Tamil?
- Heal in Tamil is ஆறு (āṟu). See Heal meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use heal in a sentence?
- The weak spot in English spelling, however, can be easily healed with the global alphabet.
- What part of speech is heal?
- Heal can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce heal?
- Heal is pronounced /ˈhiːl/.
- What is the past tense of heal?
- The past tense of heal is healed.
Words near heal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heal (page history and authors); Heal (page history and authors); heal (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heal (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heal (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heal (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heal (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heal (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heal (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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