heilen — meaning in English

English meaning

• cure noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
• heal verb To make well again after illness or injury; to recover.
• medicinal adj Having healing properties, or used to treat illness.
• treat verb To behave toward someone or something in a particular way.

Senses

heilen is used for these senses in English:

• cure (transitive) To restore to health.
• cure (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
• heal (transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
• heal (intransitive) To become better or healthy again.
• medicinal Tending or used to cure disease or relieve pain.
• treat (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to. [from 18th c.]

cure — full definition

1. noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
2. verb To restore someone to health, or to fix a problem completely.
3. verb To preserve food, typically meat or fish, by salting, smoking, or drying.

heal — full definition

1. verb To make well again after illness or injury; to recover.
2. verb To repair a rift or resolve a conflict between people.

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