heal

heal
[[t]hi͟ːl[/t]]
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heals, healing, healed
1) V-ERG When a broken bone or other injury heals, it becomes healthy and normal again.

Within six weeks the bruising had gone, but it was six months before it all healed...

If they'd operated and pinned her arm at once, she might have healed by now...

[V n] No doctor has ever healed a broken bone: he or she sets them...

[V n] Therapies like acupuncture do work and many people have been healed by them.

2) V-ERG When someone's emotional pain heals, they feel normal and happy again.

A year later, she had healed to the point of at least being able to consider a romantic relationship with another man...

[be V-ed from n] Only by fully experiencing the depth of our pain can we be healed from it and be done with it. [Also V n]

3) V-ERG If you heal something such as a rift or a wound, or if it heals, the situation is put right so that people are friendly or happy again.

[V n] Today Sophie and her sister have healed the family rift and visit their family every weekend...

The psychological effects on the United States were immense and in Washington the wounds have still not fully healed.

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