"heals" in the verb sense
1. mend, heal
heal or recover
"My broken leg is mending"
2. heal
get healthy again
"The wound is healing slowly"
3. bring around, cure, heal
provide a cure for, make healthy again
"The treatment cured the boy's acne"
"The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
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