Heal

/ˈhiːl/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
2. (intransitive) To become better or healthy again.
3. (transitive, figurative) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
4. (roleplaying games, countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
5. (roleplaying games, video games, in the plural) Healing; an instance of restoration of health or hit points.
6. (obsolete, uncountable) health
7. (rare) Alternative form of hele (“conceal”).

Example Sentences

This bandage will help to heal your cut.

Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.

Bandages allow cuts to heal.

to heal dissensions

to heal a broken heart

English spelling, although unphonetic and antiphonetic, was inherited from our ancestors and has served magnificently in the glorious past. The weak spot in English spelling, however, can be easily healed with the global alphabet.

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.

The following macro checks whether our current target is friendly and casts a heal on it if so; otherwise it casts the heal on the target's target […]

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• heals
• healing
• healed

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