(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
When a broken bone or other injury ~s or when something ~s it, it becomes ~thy and normal again.
Within six weeks the bruising had gone, but it was six months before it all ~ed...
Therapies like acupuncture do work and many people have been ~ed by them.
VERB: V, V n
2.
If you ~ something such as a rift or a wound, or if it ~s, the situation is put right so that people are friendly or happy again.
Today Sophie and her sister have ~ed 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 ~ed.
VERB: V n, V