Convalesce vs Heal - What's the difference?
convalesce | heal |
To recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness
To hide; conceal; keep secret.
To cover, as for protection.
To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
* Bible, Matthew viii. 8
To become better.
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
(obsolete) health
As verbs the difference between convalesce and heal
is that convalesce is to recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness while heal is to hide; conceal; keep secret or heal can be to make better from a disease, wound, etc; to revive or cure.As a noun heal is
(obsolete) health.convalesce
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The patient convalesced for six months after his stroke.
Derived terms
* convalescent (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* ----heal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) helen, hilen, from (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) * (l) (Scotland)Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) helen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- This bandage will heal your cut.
- Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed .
- Bandages allow cuts to heal .
- to heal dissensions
Synonyms
* (make better) cure, make whole * (become better) get better, recoverDerived terms
* healable * healand, Healand * healer * healthNoun
(-)- (Chaucer)