What does HEAL mean?

Definitions for HEAL
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mend, healverb

    heal or recover

    "My broken leg is mending"

  2. healverb

    get healthy again

    "The wound is healing slowly"

  3. bring around, cure, healverb

    provide a cure for, make healthy again

    "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To HEALverb

    Etymology: halgan, Gothick; hælan, Saxon; heelen, Dutch.

    I will restore health, and heal thee of thy wounds. Jer. xxx.

    Who would not believe that our Saviour healed the sick, and raised the dead, when it was published by those who themselves often did the same miracles? Addison.

    Physicians, by just observations, grow up to an honourable degree of skill in the art of healing. Isaac Watts, Imp. of the Mind.

    Thou hast no healing medicines. Jer. xxx. 13.

    A fontanel had been made in the same leg, which he was forced to heal up, by reason of the pain. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

    After separation of the eschar, I deterged and healed. Richard Wiseman.

  2. To Healverb

    To grow well. Used of wounds or sores.

    Those wounds heal that men do give themselves. William Shakespeare.

    Abscesses will have a greater or less tendency to heal, as they are higher or lower in the body. Samuel Sharp, Surgery.

Wikipedia

  1. HEAL

    El Alamein International Airport (IATA: DBB, ICAO: HEAL) (Arabic: مطار العلمين الدولي‎ Maṭār El ʿAlamein El Dawli) is an international airport located in El Dabaa, Matrouh Governorate, Egypt. The airport is located at the Northern coast, 160 km (99 mi) west of Alexandria.

ChatGPT

  1. heal

    To heal means to restore health or to recover from damage, injury, or illness. This could refer to the physical recovery of a wound or sickness in a living organism, or metaphorically to the recovery of emotional, mental, or social harm or distress. It can also refer to the process of making whole, sound, or better any system, relationship, or situation that was previously in a state of harm or imbalance.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Healverb

    to cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like

  2. Healverb

    to make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health

  3. Healverb

    to remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound

  4. Healverb

    to restore to original purity or integrity

  5. Healverb

    to reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions

  6. Healverb

    to grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over

  7. Healverb

    health

  8. Etymology: [See Hele.]

Wikidata

  1. Heal

    Heal is the fourth and final full-length studio album from the Arizona thrash metal band, Sacred Reich. It was released in February 1996 on Metal Blade Records and follows the 1993 album, Independent. The band's final album was a 1997 live recording, Still Ignorant, which saw the return of original drummer, Greg Hall.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Heal

    hēl, v.t. to make whole and healthy: to cure: to remove or subdue what is evil: to restore to soundness, to remedy, repair.—v.i. to grow sound:—pr.p. heal′ing; pa.p. healed.—adj. Heal′able.—ns. Heal′er; Heal′ing, the act or process by which anything is healed or cured: the power to heal.—adj. tending to cure, mild.—adv. Heal′ingly.—adj. Heal′some (Scot.), wholesome. [A.S. hǽlan, hál, whole; cf. Ger. heil, Dut. heel, Ice. heill; also Eng. hail, hale, whole.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. HEAL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Heal is ranked #14827 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Heal surname appeared 1,999 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Heal.

    81.2% or 1,624 total occurrences were White.
    10% or 201 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    5.5% or 111 total occurrences were Black.
    1.5% or 30 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.3% or 27 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.3% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of HEAL in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of HEAL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of HEAL in a Sentence

  1. Michael Bridge:

    When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

  2. Eric Nauman:

    It's not just the neurons that get damaged, it's the glial cells, it's the vasculature, basically in football and woman's soccer about half the team is experiencing these kinds of things, these kinds of changes. Some of them heal and some of them don't by the time they start playing their next season and that was the thing that really got us nervous.

  3. Joe Biden:

    In a single act in Sacramento, six individuals left dead and at least a dozen more injured, families forever changed. Survivors left to heal wounds both visible and invisible.

  4. Zac Brown:

    I just took the time to get over things and heal up, you know, in my case it was fairly mild and I was just making sure that people around me were safe.

  5. Amanda Gorman:

    In my poem, I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few years. But what I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to use my words to envision a way in which our country can still come together and can still heal. It’s doing that in a way that is not erasing or neglecting the harsh truths I think America needs to reconcile with.

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  • Mawut Deng Majak
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    it is to give hopes and reconcile on negative part your brother has been suffering through being dramatized by you..
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