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verb

Heal v. t. To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. (Obs.)

Heal v. t. (past & past part. healed; pres. part. healing)

To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health. "Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed."

To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; said of a disease or a wound. "I will heal their backsliding."

To restore to original purity or integrity. "Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters."

To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.

Heal v. i. To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over. "Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves."

noun

Heal n. Health. (Obs.)

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"Heal" Quotes from Famous Books

... and she clung to this precedent with a confident tenacity that we did not try to weaken. It was foolish, of course, we said. She was pinning her faith to a case in a thousand; but the hope gave the women something to live for, and the wound would heal the better ...

— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)

... neither of them. Besides, Mrs Stewart had begged her influence, and this would open a new channel for its exercise. Indeed, if he was unhappy through her, she ought to do what she might for him. A gentle word or two would cost her nothing, and might help to heal a broken heart! She was hardly aware, however, how little she wanted ...

— Malcolm • George MacDonald

... year From hearts of birds that only feel Brief spring's deciduous flower-time near: And song more strong to help or heal Shall silence worse than winter seal? From love-lit thought's remurmuring cave The notes that rippled, wave on wave, Were clear as love, as faith were strong; And all souls blessed the soul that gave Sweet water ...

— A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... very miserable indeed because he could not get out and ride and clear his brain and heart of some of their hurt—for it had come to just that; he had been compelled to own that there was a hurt which would not heal in a hurry. ...

— Chip, of the Flying U • B. M. Bower

... Patriots, go on To heal the Nation's Sores, Find all Men's Faults out but your own, Begin good Laws, but finish none, And then shut ...

— Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry • Edmund Goldsmid

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