Heal Definition

hēl

healed, heals

verb

healed, heals

To make sound, well, or healthy again; restore to health.

Heal the sick.

Webster's New World

To become well or healthy again; be cured.

Webster's New World

To ease or relieve (emotional distress).

Only time can heal her grief.

American Heritage

To cure or get rid of (a disease)

Webster's New World

To become closed or scarred.

Webster's New World

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noun

(obsolete) Health.

Wiktionary

Origin of Heal

From Middle English helen, from Old English hǣlan (“to heal, cure, save, greet, salute”), from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną (“to heal, make whole, save”), from Proto-Indo-European *koil- (“safe, unharmed”). Cognate with Scots hale, hail (“to heal”), Eastern Frisian heila, heilen (“to heal”), West Frisian hielje, Dutch helen (“to heal”), German heilen (“to heal”), Danish hele, Swedish hela (“to heal”). More at whole.

From Wiktionary
From Middle English helen, hilen, from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”), from Proto-Germanic *helaną (“to hide, stash”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”). Cognate with Scots heal (“to cover, hide, conceal, keep secret”), Dutch helen (“to conceal”), German hehlen (“to conceal”), Latin cēlō (“conceal”). Related to hole, hull.

From Wiktionary
Middle English healen from Old English hǣlan kailo- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition