heal

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   get healthy again

   The wound is healing slowly

2. 2
   verb

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

   This bandage will help to heal your cut.

3. 3
   verb

   To become better or healthy again.

   Bandages allow cuts to heal.

4. 4
   verb

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

   to heal dissensions

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

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

   Give me heals! I need healing!

7. 7
   verb

   Alternative form of hele (“conceal”).

   "Heal, conceal and keep secret."

8. 8
   verb

   provide a cure for, make healthy again

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”), Ser…