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Definition of Heal
Heal
To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.

To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.

To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.

To restore to original purity or integrity.

To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.

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.

Health.


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Heal Quotations
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare

The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. If you believe that we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world, then I think my supporters believe that I am a messenger who can deliver that message around the world in a way that no other candidate can do.
Barack Obama

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Billy Graham

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon


The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
Maynard James Keenan

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
John Milton

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
Ho Chi Minh

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Tse-Tung

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.
Anne Wilson Schaef

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Hippocrates

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
Nikita Khrushchev

You just don't heal that easy unless you're young.
Sugar Ray Leonard

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Thomas More

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.
Andrew Greeley

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.
Mel Gibson

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.
Brandi Chastain

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Rosa Parks

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
Allen Klein

I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
Anthony Weiner

To heal from the inside out is the key.
Wynonna Judd

Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
Vanessa Carlton

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.
Mark Udall

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
Jessamyn West

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Heal Translations
heal in Dutch is genezen, beter maken, helen
heal in French is cicatriser
heal in German is verheilen, abheilen, heilen
heal in Italian is guarire
heal in Norwegian is helbrede






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