0 past simple and past participle of heal
1 to make or become well again, especially after a cut or other injury:
I've broken my leg, but the doctor says that it's a clean break, so it should heal easily.
People believed that the bones of St Swithin had the power to heal the sick.
The rubble of human lives is somehow deemed to have been cleared and healed by the ever-changing, ever-grander jumble of concrete, glass and steel.
The textual unfixity of his bodily injury insinuates its lingeringly irregular character, even though his body has ostensibly healed.
While primarily concerned with the living who requested assistance to be healed, medical professionals also became interested in mortality statistics.
