heal
part of speech
verb (heal, heals, healed, healing)
meaning for a pupil
1) To heal means to become healthy again after an injury, like a cut or broken bone getting better. tree →
2) To heal someone means to make them well again. tree →
3) To heal can also mean to make bad feelings or a quarrel better. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science and health lessons, the body heals itself: blood forms a scab over a cut, and new skin grows underneath; broken bones heal in a cast in weeks. Keeping a wound clean helps it heal; picking a scab slows it down. In feelings lessons, sad feelings heal with time and kindness. Phrases: heal up, heal over, take time to heal, healing.
examples
- The cut on my knee healed in a week. tree →
- Don't pick your scab, or it won't heal. tree →
- A broken arm takes about six weeks to heal. tree →
- Doctors and nurses help people heal. tree →
- Keep the wound clean so it heals. tree →
- Time helped heal her sadness. tree →
- They said sorry and the friendship healed. tree →
- Aloe vera gel can help sunburn heal. tree →
- A wound from Kay's sword no physician could heal. tree →
note
Do not confuse with «heel» (the back of your foot) or «he'll» (he will); all three sound the same. Regular verb: healed, healing. Noun: healing; a healer is someone who heals.
In the corpora
- Some Smilodon skeletons show healed injuries, so scientists think they may have lived in groups, though this is still argued about.
- Bones are alive, with blood vessels and cells that rebuild them, so a broken bone can heal.
- Wounds inside the mouth heal faster than wounds on the skin, helped by saliva and a good blood supply.
- A broken growth plate needs a doctor's care, because if it heals badly that bone may grow less.
- Yet when the world agreed to act, the ozone layer began to heal.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «heal» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.