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heal verb [ hiːl ]

• cause (a wound, injury, or person) to become sound or healthy again.
• "his concern is to heal sick people"
Similar: make better, make well, cure, treat successfully, restore to health, get someone back on their feet, make good, mend, remedy, restore, curative, therapeutic, medicinal, remedial, curing, corrective, reparative, restorative, tonic, health-giving, healthful, beneficial, salubrious, sanative, analeptic, iatric,
Opposite: make worse, harmful,
Origin: Old English hǣlan (in the sense ‘restore to sound health’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heelen and German heilen, also to whole.


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