heal

Meanings

Verb

• To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
• To become better or healthy again.
• To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
• Alternative of hele.

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• cure, make whole
• get better, recover

Origin

• 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 *koyl- ("safe, unharmed").
• Cognate with Scots hale, hail, Saterland Frisian heila, heilen, West Frisian hielje, Dutch helen ("to heal"), German heilen ("to heal"), Danish hele, Swedish hela ("to heal"). More at whole.
• See hele.