heal
/ˈhiːl/ verb B1- To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. · This bandage will help to heal your cut.
- To become better or healthy again. · Bandages allow cuts to heal.
- To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt. · to heal dissensions· to heal a broken heart
He/she/it heals · Past healed · Past participle healed · -ing form healing
Verb forms
- Base form
- heal
- He/she/it
- heals
- Past
- healed
- Past participle
- healed
- -ing form
- healing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us.
“The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honoured father always gave me much uneasiness; and, since I have had the misfortune to lose him, I have frequently wished to heal the breach: but, for some time, I was kept back by my own doubts, fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom it had always pleased him to be at variance.
When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations, he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks.
AN OLD WOMAN having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician to heal them, and made this bargain with him in the presence of witnesses: that if he should cure her blindness, he should receive from her a sum of money; but if her infirmity remained, she should give him nothing.
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