heal
verb (used with object)
to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
heals
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present tense formof heal (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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If I could boil my formula for the future of dementia care into two words, it would be this: Hope heals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
From there, activists could demand almost whatever they want: action on climate change, an end to mass surveillance and ICE raids, or an equitable health system that heals instead of mangles.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025
In 1986, an article in the New Journal of Medicine by Dr. Harold Dvorak suggested that cancer behaves very much like a wound that never heals.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 10, 2025
"I don't want to put any ceilings on Jac, we've got a good medical team here and everybody heals at a different rate," Jones said.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
But time heals wounds, and by the next fall I had become used to the ache in my heart, and I began to think about what I should do with my life.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
