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heal/heel/he'll

heal (hēl)

Verb. healed, healing, heals.

Verb. Transitive

    • To restore to health or soundness; cure.
    • To set right; repair: healed the rift between us.
    • To restore (a person) to spiritual wholeness.

Verb. Intransitive

    • To become whole and sound; return to health.

heel (hēl)

Noun

    • The rounded posterior portion of the human foot under and behind the ankle.
    • The part, as of a sock, shoe, or stocking, that covers the rounded posterior portion of the human foot.
    • One of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread.
    • The lower or rearward part, as: The part of the head of a golf club where it joins the shaft.
    • Botany. The basal end of a plant cutting or tuber used in propagation.

Verb. heeled, heeling, heels.

Verb. Transitive

    • To furnish with a heel or heels.
    • To repair or replace the heels, as for shoes.
    • To press or strike with the heel: heel a horse.

Verb. Intransitive

    • To follow at one's heels: The dog won't heel.

he'll (hēl)

    • Contraction of he will.

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