Heal
[hiːl] or [hil]
Definition
(v. t.) To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
(v. t.) To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.
(v. t.) To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.
(v. t.) To restore to original purity or integrity.
(v. t.) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.
(v. i.) To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over.
(v. t.) Health.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Cure, remedy, restore, make sound or whole.[2]. Reconcile, compose, settle, make up.
v. n. Be cured, become sound.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cure, repair, restore, remedy, assuage, cicatrize, reconcile
ANT:Harm, hurt, wound, pierce, ulcerate
Editor: Rudolf
Definition
v.t. to make whole and healthy: to cure: to remove or subdue what is evil: to restore to soundness to remedy repair.—v.i. to grow sound:—pr.p. heal′ing; pa.p. healed.—adj. Heal′able.—ns. Heal′er; Heal′ing the act or process by which anything is healed or cured: the power to heal.—adj. tending to cure mild.—adv. Heal′ingly.—adj. Heal′some (Scot.) wholesome.
Checker: Roland
Examples
- They are worse than a goring, for the injury is internal and it does not heal. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I know it is, said Mrs. Shelby, as her tears fell fast; and _I_ cannot heal it, but Jesus can. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- My left arm, though it presented no bad symptoms, took, in the natural course, so long to heal that I was still unable to get a coat on. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- My affections are wounded; it is impossible to heal them:--cease then the vain endeavour, if indeed that way your endeavours tend. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mouth washes are a valuable addition to the toilet as they assist to harden and heal the gums, cleanse the mouth and purify the breath. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- You were made for our faith: depend upon it our faith alone could heal and help you--Protestantism is altogether too drycold, prosaic for you. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The spirits of evil bring mal adies upon us; the gods heal the diseases that afflict us. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This healed the breach between the two, never after reopened. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At all events methought that the wound could be healed; and, if they remained together, it would be so. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I have the pleasure, madam, (to Mrs. Bates,) of restoring your spectacles, healed for the present. Jane Austen. Emma.
- George drew off his glove, and showed a newly-healed scar in his hand. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A secret feud of some years' standing was thus healed, and with a tacit reconciliation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The heart so wounded should be healed at last; the proud spirit so tortured should find rest again; the humbled head should be lifted up once more. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The die is the same as the porochial seal--the Good Samaritan healing the sick and bruised man. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Then he went healing and teaching through Galilee, and even journeyed to Tyre and Sidon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- More pliable under change than her sister, Laura showed more plainly the progress made by the healing influences of her new life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I see her father, aged and bent, but otherwise restored, and faithful to all men in his healing office, and at peace. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She remembered Gerty's words: I know him--he will help you; and her mind clung to them as a sick person might cling to a healing relic. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- One woman has a gift of healing, another not; one is a musician, and another has no music in her nature? Plato. The Republic.
- She could but lick the wounds, and thus she kept them cleansed, that healing nature might the more quickly do her work. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It is not violence that best overcomes hate--nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There must be something, too, in its dews which heals with sovereign balm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Let the rest be left, confidently left, to your husband's devotion, and to Time that heals even wounds as deep as yours. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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