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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

... Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that ...

— The Bible in its Making - The most Wonderful Book in the World • Mildred Duff

... that thought is arrested, and originality, vivacity, individuality become a crime—a shame that must be hidden. Into this strange organism I took my wounded heart, imagining that an atmosphere of coma might help to heal it. But no! Within a week my state had become such that I could have cried out in mid Union Street at noon: 'Look at me with your dead eyes, you dead who have omitted to get buried, I am among you, and I am an adulteress in spirit! And my body has sinned the sin! And I am alive as only grief ...

— Sacred And Profane Love • E. Arnold Bennett

... seemed the only circumstance which diminished the happiness of Alfieri and Mme. d'Albany; nay, it is not heartless, surely, to say that, cruel as was that wound, there was doubtless a quite special sad sweetness in each trying to heal it in the other, in the redoubled love due to this fellow-feeling in affliction, the new energy of affection which comes to the survivors whenever Death calls out the warning, "Love each other while I still let you." But they had still ...

— The Countess of Albany • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

... heal his afflictions, To whom balsam was poison, Who, from love's fullness, Drank in misanthropy only? First despised, and now a despiser, He, in secret, wasteth All that he is worth, In a selfishness vain. If there be, on thy ...

— The Poems of Goethe • Goethe

... by came a gatherer of herbs, and cut the green leaves from the plant. "They are good for bruises," he said; "or distilled, their juice may heal an ...

— The Silver Crown - Another Book of Fables • Laura E. Richards

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