heal

Meaning

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

cure

recover

make well

restore to health

be healed

make alive

make better

skin over

set right

snap back

tend to

scar over

become better

be cured

recure

be curable

feel better

give medicine

have a treatment

make bed

cure save

unbreak

cure⫷mn⫸

get well +

grow over

grow together

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hiːl/

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”).