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heal

 
 
/hiːl/ verb [I, T] ( also heal up)

Translation

If a wound or broken bone heals, it becomes healthy again, and if something heals it, it makes it healthy again.
iyileş(tir)mek, düzel(t)mek
The wound on his head had begun to heal.599
healer noun [C] someone who makes ill people well again using something such as prayer or magic
üfürükçü, şaklaban, sahtekâr
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(Definition of heal verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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