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heal

UK/ˈhiːl/ US/ˈhɪi̯l/ common

verb

1.

heal or recover

  • “My broken leg is mending”
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2.

get healthy again

  • “The wound is healing slowly”
3.

provide a cure for, make healthy again

  • “The treatment cured the boy”
  • “;”
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Origin

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 *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). 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”).

Phrases

  • crystal healing
  • heal and draw
  • heal over
  • heal up
  • healing crisis
  • healing lodge
  • physician, heal thyself
  • spiritual healing

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