heal

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
2. (intransitive) To become better or healthy again.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.

Noun

1. (countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
2. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Healing; an instance of restoration of health or hit points.
3. (obsolete, uncountable) health

Sinonieme

cure

recover

treat

remedy

recuperate

get well

make well

fix

improve

mend

care for

get better

save

cool

🆒

close up

restore to health

repair

medicate

be healed

bring around

revive

relieve

doctor

🧑‍⚕️

cured

convalesce

make alive

cicatrize

skin

make better

skin over

nurse

calm down

restore

make good

satisfy

scar

set right

snap back

take care of

tend to

thank

unbend

use

weld

heal up

improve on

sain

scar over

become better

be cured

Vertalings

guérir

heilen

curar

guarire

genezen

helen

sanar

curar

curare

sanare

genesen

θεραπεύω

curar

soigner

verheilen

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/hiːl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: helen

Geërf van Old English: hǣlan

Verwante met Skots: hale

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: heila

Verwante met Fries: hielje

Verwante met Nederlands: helen

Verwante met Duits: heilen

Verwante met Deens: hele

Verwante met Sweeds: hela

Verwante met Russies: цели́ть

Verwante met Pools: ocalić

Verwante met Tsjeggies: celit

Verwante met Serwo-Kroaties: céliti

In summary

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 *koyl- (“safe, unharmed”). 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”).

Sinne

He spent several months in military hospitals to heal his wounds .