HEAL Synonyms: 95 Similar and Opposite Words

heal

verb

ˈhēl

Definition of heal

as in to rehabilitate

to restore to a healthy condition a low-fat vegetarian diet, moderate exercise, and stress management help heal a diseased heart heal the sick

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as in to recover

to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness most of the soldiers could go home while they were still healing from their wounds

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as in to cure

to bring about recovery from time heals all wounds, even those of the heart

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Recent Examples of heal Van Ness will be charged with leading that group and appeared to be hitting his stride early last season before a foot injury that took far longer to heal than expected derailed his progress. — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 27 July 2026 Brown — whose skin is now fully healed, but remains sensitive — has also stopped using tanning beds, now utilizes sunscreen and opts for shady spots instead of lying directly under the sun. — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 26 July 2026 What followed was a fight to breathe, to heal, and simply to survive. — Candace McKnight, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2026 That way, the treatment will have settled into your skin, while still giving a little bit of time to heal in the event that swelling or bruising occurs. — Rio Viera-Newton, Vogue, 23 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for heal

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Yet while those aforementioned creatures still get rehabilitated on a regular basis, they’re now greatly surpassed in popular visibility by a cannibal undead that didn’t even exist in the genre until more recent decades.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2026
Maybe the domain is too diseased to rehabilitate for clicks, even under its supposedly privacy-forward rebrand.

— Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 30 July 2026

Definition of rehabilitate

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Wells, 18, disappeared July 4 during a boat trip with three friends to Horn Island in Jackson, Mississippi, and his body was recovered two days later by a National Park Service ranger on a nearby island.

— Margaret Baker, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
Investigators recovered numerous pieces of evidence, including pieces of clothing, fired shell casings, DNA swabs and bullet fragments collected from Cherry’s body, according to the report.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2026

Definition of recover

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The tech giant was racing to fix weaknesses in its code that a new AI model known as Mythos was uncovering at an unprecedented clip.

— Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 29 July 2026
The OpenAI agents exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Artifactory, which OpenAI has since disclosed to JFrog, and which the company confirmed has since been fixed.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 29 July 2026

Definition of fix

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With the aim of producing an addition 200,000 degrees beyond the 1 million already projected for 2030, the university set goals to improve its graduation rates.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
Given the tools on show in the macOS beta closely match those on iOS, coupled with Apple’s push to unify as many of its operating system features, there will be some cross-platform data to improve this part of Siri AI.

— Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of improve

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Nvidia has secured what could be a $500 billion memory supply agreement with SK Hynix, potentially alleviating a concern as the memory market faces a global shortage.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 27 July 2026
In came a fleet of role players tasked with alleviating the burden Cade Cunningham has carried to generate all of Detroit’s offense.

— Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026

Definition of alleviate

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Another point is to mandate that all military intelligence infrastructure treats AI-derived target assessments as highly suspect, rather than highly accurate.

— Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
The Ojai Raptor Center, which has been treating Jackie, said the bald eagle's bloodwork indicates anemia.

— Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of treat

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Christos Tzolis’ arrival from Club Brugge this summer could remedy that somewhat, with people who previously worked with the Greece international, who asked to be kept anonymous to protect relationships, highlighting the aggression in his running.

— Art de Roché, New York Times, 31 July 2026
In law, irreparable harm means an injury that monetary damages cannot fully remedy.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 30 July 2026

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