Synonyms for heal
Most common
Definitions
- v. 1
To become better or healthy again.
Bandages allow cuts to heal.
- v. 2
To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
This bandage will help to heal your cut.
Forms
- Past participle
- healed
e.g. healed → recovered, mended, repaired, meliorated…
Example sentences
- repair After his knee repair, he could walk without pain.
- recover We'll find more engineers to recover the schedule.
- mend The chance that Tom will mend his ways is minimal.
- cure This medicine will cure your headache immediately.
By length
- 4 letters
- cure1, mend1
- 5 letters
- leech1
- 6 letters
- repair2, settle2, remedy3
- 7 letters
- recover3, restore2
- 8 letters
- medicate3
- 9 letters
- reconcile3, meliorate, cicatrize, cicatrise
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (repair2 = 2 syllables).