Heal

Definitions: Heal

Heal

Verb

1. Heal or recover; "My broken leg is mending".

2. Get healthy again; "The wound is healing slowly".

3. Provide a cure for, make healthy again.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "heal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Heal

Forgiveness

Beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon; Noun: conciliate, propitiate, placate; make up a quarrel; (pacify); let the wound heal.

Pacification

Verb: pacify, tranquilize, compose; allay; (moderate); reconcile, propitiate, placate, conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch, heal the breach, make peace, restore harmony, bring to terms.

Restoration

Redress, recure; cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate; break of; bring round, set on one's legs.

Heal, skin over, cicatrize; right itself.

Crosswords: Heal

Frisian (half).

How can I heal? How am I supposed to heal if I can't feel time? (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

But this will heal. What I'm going to say never will. (Broadcast News; writing credit: James L. Brooks.)

Marla the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you could stop tonguing it, but you can't. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

One of my shrinks once said this to me, heal the past, live for the present, dream of the future. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)

Once the Planet is hurt, it gathers Spirit Energy to heal the injury. (Final Fantasy VII; writing credit: Kouze Ide; Kazushige Nojima)

A time to kill, a time to heal ("Turn Turn Turn"; performing artist: The Byrds)

A loving word may heal and bless. (references; author: unknown)

A Time to Heal (1986)

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Books

• How to Stop Heartburn: Simple Ways to Heal Heartburn and Acid Reflux (reference)

• Smart Medicine for Your Skin: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Conventional and Alternative Therapies to Heal Common Skin Problems (reference)

• Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain (reference)

• Breathing Free: The Revolutionary 5-Day Program to Heal Asthma, Emphysema, Bronchitis, and Other Respiratory Ailments (reference)

• The Courage to Heal Workbook: For Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Heal (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sounds That Heal (reference)

• Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Tune your Brain with Bach: Heal (reference)

• Come Heal This Land: Live Worship From Northern Ireland (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Symptoms from HSV-1 or HSV-2 infection, when signs do occur, typically appear as one or more blisters on or around the genitals or rectum. The blisters break, leaving tender ulcers (sores) that may take two to four weeks to heal the first time they occur.Credit: CDC.

Symptoms from HSV-1 or HSV-2 infection, when signs do occur, typically appear as one or more blisters on or around the genitals or rectum. The blisters break, leaving tender ulcers (sores) that may take two to four weeks to heal the first time they occur.Credit: CDC.

Gummatous lesions due to tertiary syphilis occur many years after initial untreated primary syphilis. The tumors are benign and if properly treated, the gummas will heal and the patient will recover in most cases.Credit: CDC.

This patient presented with tertiary syphilitic gummas of the nose mimicking basal cell carcinoma. The gummatous tumors are benign and if properly treated, will heal and the patient will recover in most cases.Credit: CDC.

Attention! : a sore that does not heal.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Wounds heal poorly and may leave scars. (references)

If they heal that way, a fistula forms. (references)

After the incisions heal, the patient may void less frequently. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

In order to heal the wounds created by apartheid, the government created the Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) under the leadership of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. (references)

Human Rights

Malawi

Police sometimes hide these abuses by keeping prisoners in police custody until wounds heal before turning them over to the prison system for remand. (references)

Libya

Methods of torture reportedly include: Chaining to a wall for hours; clubbing; applying electric shock; applying corkscrews to the back; pouring lemon juice in open wounds; breaking fingers and allowing the joints to heal without medical care; suffocating with plastic bags; depriving of food and water; hanging by the wrists; suspending from a pole inserted between the knees and elbows; burning with cigarettes; attacking with dogs; and beating on the soles of the feet. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "heal": heal all ♦ heal over ♦ heal the breach ♦ heal up ♦ let the wound heal ♦ To heal by the first intention ♦ To heal by the second intention. Additional references.

Beginning with "heal": heal-all.

Ending with "heal": All-heal, self-heal.

Albanian

shpëtoj (bring off, bring through, carry through, creep out, deliver, elude, escape, extricate, flee, get away, get off the hook, get out, get rid, get rid of, preserve, rescue, rid, salvage, save, skip, spare), shëroj (cure, physic, remedy), shërohet, shërohem (be on the mend, cure, do well, get abroad, get around, get better, get round, mend, recover, recuperate, resume one's health), qetësohem (abate, blow out, calm down, cool down, cool off, die down, grow quiet, rage, settle down, simmer down, subside), përthahet (cicatrize), ngjall (arouse, awake, bestir, breed, bring to life, conjure, create, exalt, excite, feed up, incur, infuse, inspire, interest, kindle, quicken, raise, revive, sow, wake, whet), mbyllet, çliroj (affranchise, cast off, deliver, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, disenthrall, emancipate, evolve, extricate, liberate, lighten, ransom, release, relieve, rescue, rid, set at large, set free, set loose, unbend, unfetter, unpeg). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سد ثلمة, ‏عالج (address, cover, cure, deal, debug, doctor, dose, fix, handle, manage, medicine, pack, process, rectify, remedy, treat), ‏إندمل (skin), ‏إلتأم (coalesce, convene, gather, rally, skin, unite), ‏شفى (cure, fix, get better, get over, get well, mend, pull round, recover, recuperate, restore, set up, skin), ‏داوى (cure, medicate, medicine, remedy), ‏برىء (exculpate). (various references)

Blackfoot

wakkii (to heal). (various references)

Bulgarian 

церя (balsam, cure, physic, treat for), оздравявам (get round, get through, on the mend, recover, recuperate), оправям (adjust, disembroil, disentangle, do a room, make, patch, planish, pull round, pull through, put in order, put right, readjust, right, righten, set right, sleave, straighten, tide, true, unbend, unkink, unravel, wipe up), зараствам (cicatrize, knit together, scab, set, skin over), лекувам (cure, doctor, medicate, nurse, salve, treat for, vet), помирявам (accommodate, appease, bring together, compose, placate, reconcile). (various references)

Chinese 

�' , 瘳 (convalesce, recover), 瘉 , 愈合 (healed), 愈 (better, the more...the more, to recover), 復原 . (various references)

Cornish

sawya (to heal). (various references)

Czech

hojit se (close up), vyléèit, překonat (beat, better, bridge, clear, conquer, eclipse, exceed, Excel, get the better of, go beyond, outdo, overcome, refute, surmount, surpass, tide over), překlenout (bridge, cope, span, vault), léèit (cure, medicate, medicine, nurse, physic, treat). (various references)

Danish

sanatio per primam intentionem (primary heal), primæropheling (primary heal), overvoksning (heal over, occlusion, rind gall), almindelig brunelle (heal-all, self-heal, sicle wort). (various references)

Dutch

helen (cure, recover, remedy), genezen (cure, recover, remedy), beter maken (cure, remedy). (various references)

Esperanto

sanigi (cure, remedy), resanigi (cure, remedy). (various references)

Farsi 

خوب کردن , خوب شدن , التیام دادن (Solder), شفادادن (Cure, Leech, Medicate, Mend, Physic). (various references)

Finnish

parantua (get better, get well, improve, recover), parantaa (ameliorate, amend, care for, cure, improve, remedy, to doctor, treat), kasvaa umpeen (heal over). (various references)

French

guérir, cicatriser. (various references)

Frisian

genêze (cure, recover, remedy). (various references)

German

verheilen (heal up, mend), heilen (care for, cleanse, clear up, cure, heal up, healing, mend, recover, remedy, to cure, treat). (various references)

Greek 

επουλώνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�'�"ות (cure), לרפא (cure, remedy). (various references)

Hungarian

jóvátesz (make amends, make good, redeem, to condone, to make good, to plaster, to recompense, to redeem, to retrieve), gyógyít (cure, medicate, to cure, to doctor, to medicate, to salve). (various references)

Indonesian

menyembuhkan (allay, curative, vulnerary). (various references)

Italian

guarire (care for, convalesce, cure, get out, recover, recruit, treat). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

パ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "pu", heap, hear, hearing, heat, heat pipe, heat pump, heater, heel, heel out, hero, hero package, hymen, interview, listening comprehension, public hearing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�'ール (heel). (various references)

Korean 

치� 하십시�". (various references)

Manx

slanaghey (healing, make), lheihys (cure, curing, healing, remedy). (various references)

Norwegian

helbrede. (various references)

Pig Latin

ealhay

Portuguese

sarar (cure, remedy), curar (bring through, cure, get on, get on in years, medicate, remedy, restore, smoke, treat). (various references)

Romanian

vindeca (cure, mend, recuperate, remedy, repair), tãmãdui (cure, medicine, recover, remedy), se vindeca (recuperate), reînchide (reclose, shut), lecui (cure, recover), însãnãtoşi (cleanse, cure, mend, recover), închide (bar, block, bolt, cage, chest, clap up, clasp, clench, close, closet, comprise, confine, contain, crib, darken, embay, enclose, fasten, furl, girdle, half-shut, hem, impound, imprison, include, lock, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut the works down, stopper). (various references)

Romansch

tgirar (to heal). (various references)

Romany

saskyarav (to heal). (various references)

Russian 

заживать (cicatrize), залечивать, исцелять, излечивать. (various references)

Scottish

leighis (cure, remedy), ìoc (cure, pay, remedy, render). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zarasti, zalečiti (cure), lečiti (cure, medicate, treat), isceliti (cure). (various references)

Spanish

curar (care for, cure, doctor, dress, hustle, remedy, season, treat, weather). (various references)

Swedish

läka, hela (all, cure, entire, recover, remedy, whole), bota (cure, remedy). (various references)

Turkish

tatlıya bağlamak (smooth over), iyileştirmek (ameliorate, amend, better, cicatrize, cleanse, cure, improve, make better, nurse, pull round, pull through, recruit, recuperate, rehabilitate, remedy, set up, upgrade), iyileşmek (ameliorate, amend, be recovered from, cicatrize, come along, come through, come to, convalesce, do better, get better, get well, heal over, heal up, improve, meliorate, mend, perk oneself, perk oneself up, pick up, pull round, pull through, rally, recover, recruit, recuperate, return to health), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade). (various references)

Ukranian 

виліковувати (cure, remedy), зціляти (cure), загоюватися (incarnate, repair). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuốc bách bệnh (cure-all, heal-all, panacea). (various references)

Welsh

mendio (mend, recover), meddyginiaethu (cure, remedy), iacha/u (save). (various references)

Zulu

-pholisa (care for, cure, remedy, treat). (various references)

cura, curabant, curabantur, curabat, curabimini, curabit, curabo, curabunt, curamini, curandi, curandum, curans, curantes, curare, curarem, curarentur, curaret, curaretur, curari, curas, curasset, curata, curatae, curate, curatus, curaverunt, curavimus, curavit, curem, cures, medebitur, mederer, medetur, medico, medorum, Prunella vulgaris, sana, sanaballat, sanabant, sanabat, sanaberis, sanabit, sanabitur, sanabo, sanabor, sanabuntur, sanandi, sanando, sanandum, sanans, sanare, sanarentur, sanaret, sanari, sanarique, sanasti, sanastis, sanat, sanata, sanatae, sanati, sanator, sanatum, sanatus, sanavi, sanavit, sanem, sanetur. (various references)

halian. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "heal": healable, healed, healer, healers, healing, healings, heals, health, healthful, healthfully, healthfulness, healthfulnesses, healthier, healthiest, healthily, healthiness, healthinesses, healths, healthy. (additional references)

Words ending with "heal": allheal, antidiarrheal, diarrheal, endotracheal, gonorrheal, leukorrheal, menarcheal, selfheal, sheal, tracheal, wheal. (additional references)

Words containing "heal": allheals, selfheals, shealing, shealings, sheals, unhealed, unhealthful, unhealthier, unhealthiest, unhealthily, unhealthiness, unhealthinesses, unhealthy, wheals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Heal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cheal, eal, eha, ehl, Ehle, Haala, Haehl, hael, haele, haemal, hal, hala, halal, Hamal, haral, Hawala, hea, heab, Heaf, heah, heak, healf, healm, healp, heao, hearl, heav, heca, heela, heeli, heelo, Hehai, heian, heik, heill, hejab, Helaf, helal, Helan, helar, heml, Heracla, herale, hesl, heva, heval, Heyl, hiab, hiah, hial, hiel, hijab, hila, Hiral, Hoall, hoalt, hoea, hoil, hola, huil, Hwal, Hycal, hyemale, Jeal, Mheall, pheal, theal, theil, theol, Xhemal, yeal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hale.

-1 letter: ale, hae, lea.

-2 letters: ae, ah, al, eh, el, ha, he, la.

+1 letter: aleph, almeh, chela, haled, haler, hales, halve, haole, hazel, heals, hemal, lathe, leach, leash, lehua, selah, shale, sheal, whale, wheal.

+2 letters: alephs, almehs, althea, ashler, awhile, behalf, bleach, chaleh, chalet, chapel, chelae, chelas, daledh, daleth, enhalo, exhale, fellah, habile, hackle, haemal, haggle, hailed, hailer, halers, haleru, halest, halide, halite, hallel, haloed, haloes, halted, halter, halved, halves, hamlet, handle, hansel, hantle, haoles, haslet, hassel, hassle, hauled, hauler, hazels, healed, healer, health, heliac, herald, herbal, hiemal, hyetal, inhale, keblah, laches, lamedh, lashed, lasher, lashes, lathed, lather, lathes, leachy, lehuas, lethal, loathe, phylae, pleach, selahs, shaled, shales, shaley, sheals, sheila, shelta, thaler, thecal, thenal, wealth, whaled, whaler, whales, wheals.

+3 letters: acaleph, airhole, alchemy, allheal, althaea, altheas, anethol, aphelia, armhole, ashlers, ashless, asshole, athlete, bechalk, benthal, blather, caleche, caliche, chaetal, chalehs, chalets, chalice, chalked, challie, chalone, chancel, channel, chapels, chaplet, charley, charlie, charnel, chattel, cheaply, chelate, cholate, cholera, chorale, choreal, clashed, clasher, clashes, cochlea, daledhs, daleths, deathly, earthly, enhalos, enthral, ephoral, epochal, ethanol, ethical, exhaled, exhales, eyelash, fellahs, flashed, flasher, flashes, galoshe, hackled, hackler, hackles, haggled, haggler, haggles, hailers, halberd, halbert, halides, halites, hallels, halloed, halloes, halogen, haltere, halters, halvers, hamlets, handled, handler, handles, handsel, hansels, hantles, hapless, haplite, harelip, harslet, haslets, hassels, hassled, hassles, hatable, hatchel, hateful, hatless, hatlike, haulage, haulers, haulier, haverel, haylage, hazelly, headily, healers, healing, healths, healthy, heavily, heeltap, heliast, helical, helipad, hellcat, helluva, hematal, hemiola, heralds, herbals, hernial, hewable, hexapla, hidable, hirable, hollaed, humeral, hyaline, hyalite, hymenal, inhaled, inhaler, inhales, keblahs, kolache, lamedhs, larches, lashers, latched, latches, latchet, lathers, lathery, lathier, laughed, laugher, leached, leacher, leaches, leashed, leashes, leather, lehayim, lethals, lethean, loaches, loathed, loather, loathes, manhole, phaseal, planche, plashed, plasher, plashes, ralphed, rathole, satchel, shackle, shalier, shamble, shapely, shauled, shawled, sheilas, shellac, sheltas, shoaled, shoaler, slashed, slasher, slashes, slather, spheral, stealth, taphole, thalers, thermal, trachle, trehala, unleash, wealths, wealthy, whalers.

+4 letters: acalephe, acalephs, achenial, achillea, aerolith, airholes, alcahest, alchemic, aldehyde, alehouse, alighted, alkahest, allheals, alphabet, althaeas, anethole, anethols, anthelia, anthelix, antheral, aphelian, aphelion, apholate, archaeal, armholes, ashlared, ashlered, asphodel, assholes, atheling, athletes, athletic, bachelor, baldhead, bathless, bechalks, bechamel, behalves, billhead, blanched, blancher, blanches, blathers, bleached, bleacher, bleaches, bleakish, bluehead, bolthead, bulkhead, bullhead, calashes, caleches, caliches, cashable, cashless, catechol, cephalad, cephalic, cephalin, chadless, chalazae, chaliced, chalices, chalkier, challies, chalones, chancels, chandler, channels, chaplets, charleys, charlies, charnels, chastely, chasuble, chattels, chelated, chelates, chelator, chemical, chevalet, chewable, chlorate, cholates, choleras, chorales, clashers, coalhole, coalshed, cochleae, cochlear, cochleas, dealfish, deathful, dihedral, earlship, earthily, elaphine, elephant, enhaloed, enhaloes, enthalpy, enthrall, enthrals, eschalot, eschewal, ethanols, ethereal, ethicals, ethnical, ethylate, eulachan, eulachon, exarchal, exhalant, exhalent, exhaling, fatherly, fellahin, firehall, fishable, fishmeal, flashers, flashier, flathead, galabieh, galoshed, galoshes, gauchely, gilthead, hacklers, hacklier, haematal, hagglers, hairless, hairlike, hairline, halazone, halberds, halberts, haleness, halfbeak, halflife, halfness, halftime, halftone, halidome, halloaed, hallooed, hallowed, hallower, halluces, halogens, halolike, haltered, halteres, haltless, hamulate, hamulose, handbell, handheld, handlers, handless, handlike, handsels, hangable, hanseled, haplites, haploses, hardline, harebell, harelike, harelips, harmless, harslets, hasteful, hatchels, hateable, haulages, hauliers, haulmier, havelock, haverels, hawklike, hayfield, haylages, hazelhen, hazelnut, headlamp, headland, headless, headline, headlock, headlong, headsail, healable, healings, hearable, heartily, heatable, heatedly, heatless, heavenly, hectical, heelball, heeltaps, heliacal, heliasts, helipads, hellcats, helmsman, helotage, helpable, helpmate, hemiolas, hemiolia, heralded, heraldic, heraldry, heroical, hexaplar, hexaplas, hibernal, hilloaed, hireable, hoarsely, holdable, holloaed, homeland, hotelman, huggable, hulloaed, humanely, humerals, hummable, huntable, hyalines, hyalites, hyalogen, hymeneal, hymenial, hypogeal, inchmeal, inhalers, inhauler, keelhale, keelhaul, kephalin, khedival, klatches, kreplach, latchets, latchkey, lathered, latherer, lathiest, laughers, laughter, launched, launcher, launches, lavished, lavisher, lavishes, leachate, leachers, leachier, leaching, leashing, leathern, leathers, leathery, lechayim, lehayims, lethally, lethargy, litharge, lithemia, loathers, longhead, lunkhead, manholes, megalith, megillah, methanol, methylal, nailhead, narghile, nargileh, narwhale, nathless, oothecal, overhaul, pamphlet, parflesh, parhelia, parhelic, pathless, pearlash, phalange, phelonia, philabeg, planches, planchet, plashers, plashier, pleached, pleaches, plethora, plowhead, potlache, railhead, rakehell, rashlike, ratholes, rehandle, relaunch, satchels, seashell, selfheal, shackled, shackler, shackles, shakable, shaliest, shamable, shambled, shambles, shameful, shapable, sharable, shavable, shealing, shedable, shellack, shellacs, sheqalim, shetland, shigella, shinleaf, shoalest, shoalier, shoelace, showable, shrapnel, shrieval, slashers, slatches, slathers, splashed, splasher, splashes, stealths, stealthy, sulphate, tapholes, teiglach, telepath, thawless, thermals, thetical, thiazole, thirlage, thralled, tithable, toolhead, tracheal, trachled, trachles, trauchle, trehalas, trochlea, unhailed, unhalved, unhealed, unlashed, unlashes, unlethal, upheaval, urethral, washable, wellhead, whaleman, whalemen, wheelman, zenithal.

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