heal

Plural: heals

Verb

heal or recover
get healthy again
- "The wound is healing slowly"
provide a cure for, make healthy again
- "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
To become better or healthy again.
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
Alternative form of hele (“conceal”).
-ED, -ING, -S to make sound or whole HEALABLE adj

Noun

A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
health

Examples

"Bandages allow cuts to heal."
"This bandage will help to heal your cut."
"to heal a broken heart"
"to heal dissensions"

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English helen, from Old English hǣlan (“to heal, cure, save, greet, salute”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailijan, from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną (“to heal, make whole, save”), from Proto-Indo-European *koyl- (“safe, unharmed”). Derived from the adjective at hand in whole.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots hale, hail (“to heal”), Saterland Frisian heila, heilen (“to heal”), West Frisian hielje, Dutch helen (“to heal”), German heilen (“to heal”), Danish hele, Swedish hela (“to heal”), and further Russian цели́ть (celítʹ, “to heal”), Polish calić (“to save”), Czech celit (“to heal”), Serbo-Croatian céliti (“to heal”).

Synonyms

bring around, cure, mend, get better, make whole, recover

Scrabble Score: 7

heal: valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
heal: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
heal: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

heal is a valid Words With Friends word