Hip Glossary: Heal
Heal:
Heal, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Healed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Healing.] [OE. helen, hælen, AS. h’d6lan, fr. hāl hale, sound, whole; akin to OS. h&emac;lian, D. heelen, G. heilen, Goth. hailjan. See Whole.]
1. To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.
2. To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; — said of a disease or a wound.
3. To restore to original purity or integrity.
4. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.
Heal (?), v. i. 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.
Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves. Shak.
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