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to heal
01
to become healthy again
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
heal
3rd person singular
heals
Present participle
healing
Past simple
healed
Past participle
healed
Examples
Over time, a wound may heal and gradually close.
02
to cause a person or thing to return to a state of physical or emotional health
Transitive: to heal a wound or illness
Examples
The medicine healed his sore throat, allowing him to speak without pain.
03
to reduce or ease someone's emotional pain or suffering
Transitive: to heal emotional pain
Examples
Talking to a friend can help heal the pain of a breakup.
Lexical Tree
healed
healer
healing
heal
