heal — OAT · Shobdo

heal

verb

1 his concern is to heal sick people:

make better, make well, cure, treat successfully, restore to health, get someone back on their feet, put someone on the road to recovery;

make good, mend, remedy, restore.

▷antonyms make worse.

2 he would have to wait until his knee had healed:

get better, get well, be cured, become healthy, recover, mend, be on the mend, improve, show improvement, be restored.

▷antonyms get worse.

3 time will eventually heal the pain of grief:

alleviate, assuage, palliate, relieve, ameliorate, ease, help, soften, lessen, mitigate, attenuate, allay, salve.

▷antonyms aggravate.

4 we've been trying to heal the rift between them:

put right, set right, put to rights, repair, remedy, resolve, correct, settle, make good, patch up, soothe, conciliate, reconcile, harmonize.

▷antonyms worsen.