HEAL


Meaning of HEAL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ hi:l ]

( heals, healing, healed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

When a broken bone or other injury heals or when something heals it, it becomes healthy and normal again.

Within six weeks the bruising had gone, but it was six months before it all healed...

Therapies like acupuncture do work and many people have been healed by them.

VERB : V , V n

2.

If you heal something such as a rift or a wound, or if it heals , the situation is put right so that people are friendly or happy again.

Today Sophie and her sister have healed the family rift and visit their family every weekend...

The psychological effects on the United States were immense and in Washington the wounds have still not fully healed.

VERB : V n , V

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