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Healed   /hild/   Listen
verb
Heal  v. t.  To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. (Obs.)



Heal  v. t.  (past & past part. healed; pres. part. healing)  
1.
To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health. "Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed."
2.
To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; said of a disease or a wound. "I will heal their backsliding."
3.
To restore to original purity or integrity. "Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters."
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."






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"Healed" Quotes from Famous Books



... did not recover so quickly; he had to be quiet until his wound had healed, and Stella and Michael missed him very much in all their games and walks, so much so indeed that Mr. Anketell, who had been sent for at once, took to planning little excursions to various picturesque spots in the neighbourhood, where they would have tea in a cottage, ...
— Paul the Courageous • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... also, saying nothing of their sex, send a messenger to the Mountain and tell the Hesea that two old strangers have arrived—mark you, old—but that they are very sick, that their limbs were broken in the river, and that when they have healed again, I will send them to ask the question of her Oracle—that is, some three moons hence. Perchance she may believe you, and be content to wait; or if she does not, at least no more words. I must sleep or my brain ...
— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard

... are very successful if the patient takes good care for months afterwards until the parts are thoroughly healed. The operation simply closes a too large opening. The testicles descending through the groin canal from the abdominal cavity before birth and in congenital rupture, left too big an opening. In acquired rupture, these natural openings were enlarged by lifting, falls, etc. The round ligament ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... her as she is bathing in the sea at Bognor Rocks; but I must with infinite gratitude give you a brief account of myself-a very poor one indeed must I give. Condemned as a cripple to my couch for the rest of my days I doubt I am. Though perfectly healed, and even without a sear, my leg is so weakened that I have not recovered the least use of it, nor can move cross my chamber unless lifted up and held by two servants. This constitutes me totally a prisoner. ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole

... that Satan is so busy with you, but God is greater than Satan. Did you ever hear of Jesus Christ? That he came into the world to save sinners? He does not demand, as a condition, any merit of your own, he only says, 'Come and be healed!' Leave your idle speculations: forget your vain philosophy. Come as you are. Come and be healed. He only requires you to be sensible of your need of him, to give him your heart, to abandon with penitence, every evil practice, and he has promised that whosoever thus comes, he will in no wise ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle


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