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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“And you have to give space for it because you can’t make it go away. ... They always say time heals, but time makes everything just a little less intense.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
Tyndale introduced the English people to a God who eats with sinners, heals the sick and comforts the grief-stricken: a loving God on a mission to rescue mankind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 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 just hope the eye heals all right.”
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
