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heal

verb
/ˈhiːl/

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 *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). 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”).

  1. derived from *kéh₂ilos✻
  2. inherited from *hailijaną✻
  3. inherited from *hailijan✻
  4. inherited from hǣlan
  5. inherited from helen

Definitions

  1. To make better from a disease, wound, etc.

    To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.

    • This bandage will help to heal your cut.
    • Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.

  2. To become better or healthy again.

    • Bandages allow cuts to heal.

  3. To reconcile, as a breach or difference

    To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.

    • to heal dissensions
    • to heal a broken heart
    • English spelling, although unphonetic and antiphonetic, was inherited from our ancestors and has served magnificently in the glorious past. The weak spot in English spelling, however, can be easily healed with the global alphabet.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

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

      • Also, various interesting spells have been added—for instance, with the Orb spell, you can circle a character, firing offensive bolts or casting heals, and free up a mage-type to cast other spells or even melee.
      • The following macro checks whether our current target is friendly and casts a heal on it if so; otherwise it casts the heal on the target's target […]
      • Synner, a priest walking by, sees her struggling and casts a heal on her.

    2. Healing

      Healing; an instance of restoration of health or hit points.

      • Give me heals! I need healing!

    3. health

    4. Alternative form of hele (“conceal”).

      • "Heal, conceal and keep secret."
      • 'I swear before God and all these witnesses that I will always heal, conceal and never reveal any art or part of this secret of horsemanry which is to be revealed to me at this time or any other time hereafter.'

    5. A surname.

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Derived

allheal, all-heal, all-healing, crystal healing, healable, heal-all, healand, heal and draw, healee, healer, healful, healing crisis, healing lodge, healless, heal over, healsome, health, heal up, healy-feely, horseheal, misheal, overheal, physician, heal thyself, reheal, selfheal, self-heal, spiritual healing, time heals all wounds, underheal, healslut

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at heal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at heal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at heal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA