Definition of heal

"heal" 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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Quotations for heal

Physician, heal thyself. [ Bible ]

Wounds given to honor never heal. [ Corneille ]

To hurt is easy, to heal is hard. [ German Proverb ]

And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound. [ O. W. Holmes ]

How poor are they who have not patience!
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? [ William Shakespeare ]

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppressed.
In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. [ Homer ]

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. [ Moore ]

A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal.
Is more than armies to the public weal. [ Pope ]

The fire that all things else consumeth clean
May hurt and heal. [ Sir Thomas Wyatt ]

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal. [ Thomas Paine ]

Wounds may heal, but not those that are made by ill words. [ Proverb ]

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal. [ Seneca ]

Faster than his tongue did make offense, his eye did heal it up. [ William Shakespeare ]

Take a hair of the same dog that bit you, and it will heal the wound. [ Proverb ]

New national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Wounds of the heart! your traces are bitter, slow to heal, and always ready to reopen. [ A. de Musset ]

The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber; for though the wound may heal, the sear of it will remain. [ Sadi ]

Great passions are incurable diseases; what might heal them is precisely that which makes them so dangerous. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb. Time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. [ Southey ]

The primal duties shine aloft like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. [ Wordsworth ]

The widow who has been bereft of her children may seem in after years no whit less placid, no whit less serenely gladsome; nay, more gladsome than the woman whose blessings are still round her. I am amazed to see how wounds heal. [ Charles Buxton ]

heal in Scrabble®

The word heal is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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heal in Words With Friends™

The word heal is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Word Growth involving heal

Shorter words in heal

he

Longer words containing heal

amenorrheal

archeal menarcheal postmenarcheal

archeal menarcheal premenarcheal

diarrheal antidiarrheal antidiarrheals

dysmenorrheal

gonorrheal

healable

heald healded

heald healder healders

heald healding

heald healds

healed selfhealed

healed unhealed

healer healers selfhealers

healer selfhealer selfhealers

healing selfhealing

heals antidiarrheals

heals selfheals

heals wheals

health healthcare

health healthful healthfully

health healthful healthfulness unhealthfulness

health healthful unhealthful unhealthfulness

health healthier unhealthier

health healthiest unhealthiest

health healthily unhealthily

health healthiness unhealthiness

health healthless

health healths

health healthy unhealthy

leukorrheal

nympheal

pyorrheal

selfheal selfhealed

selfheal selfhealer selfhealers

selfheal selfhealing

selfheal selfheals

tracheal cricotracheal

tracheal endotracheal endotracheally

tracheal esophagotracheal oesophagotracheal

tracheal extratracheal extratracheally

tracheal intratracheal intratracheally

tracheal laryngotracheal

tracheal paratracheal

wheal wheals