Heal vs Indigested - What's the difference?
heal | indigested |
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
Not digested; undigested
* Dryden
Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; not methodical; crude.
* Burke
* South
(medicine, obsolete) Not in a state suitable for healing; said of wounds.
(medicine, obsolete) Not ripened or suppurated; said of an abscess or its contents.
Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam.
(Webster 1913)
As a verb 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.As an adjective indigested is
not digested; undigested.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)
Anagrams
* * English ergative verbs ----indigested
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Indigested food.
- an indigested array of facts
- In hot reformations the whole is generally crude, harsh, and indigested .
- This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time.