HEAL
Dictionary entry overview: What does heal mean?
• HEAL (verb)
The verb HEAL has 3 senses:
1. heal or recover
2. get healthy again
3. provide a cure for, make healthy again
Familiarity information: HEAL used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• HEAL (verb)
Meaning:
Heal or recover
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
heal; mend
Context example:
My broken leg is mending
Hypernyms (to "heal" is one way to...):
ameliorate; better; improve; meliorate (get better)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Get healthy again
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Context example:
The wound is healing slowly
Hypernyms (to "heal" is one way to...):
ameliorate; better; improve; meliorate (get better)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "heal"):
scab (form a scab)
skin over (grow new skin over an injury)
granulate (form granulating tissue)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody's (body part) ----s
Meaning:
Provide a cure for, make healthy again
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
cure; bring around; heal
Context examples:
The treatment cured the boy's acne / The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to
Hypernyms (to "heal" is one way to...):
aid; help (improve the condition of)
"Heal" entails doing...:
care for; treat (provide treatment for)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "heal"):
recuperate (restore to good health or strength)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
