heal over

Form new skin

Heal is a verb that means to restore to health, or to become restored to health.

It also means to repair or become repaired: She’s having surgery to heal her broken pelvis.

When the subject of heal is a wound, injury, or disease, it means to get better or diminish: It’s a small cut and it will heal in a few days.

When you heal a relationship or a rift, you bring the parties back to friendship or harmony.

Related

tissue repair · reconcile · forgive · make amends · patch things up · revive · mend · regenerate · rebuild · overheal · soothe · comfort · rehabilitate · rejuvenate · clot · repair · renew · close up

Opposites
wound closure process

heal overreopen

Make accessible again

break open · open up · split open · fester · rupture

tissue integrity

heal overrupture

Violent tearing apart

tear · wound · lacerate · abrade · break down

temporal process of recovery

heal overdeteriorate

Grow worse over time

spread · deepen · worsen · inflame · aggravate

Family

heal, over, heals, healed, healing, healer, healers, health, healthy

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G