heel vs heal

heel

Definitions

verb

  1. follow at the heels of a person
  2. put a new heel on
  3. strike with the heel of the club
  4. perform with the heels
  5. tilt to one side

noun

  1. one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread
  2. someone who is morally reprehensible
  3. the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
  4. (golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft
  5. the back part of the human foot
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Examples

It will also host the handball final and semifinals, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball.

Assemble the table on a level surface, turn the top wheel upside down and place the seat wheel on top of it.

My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.

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heal

Definitions

verb

  1. provide a cure for, make healthy again
  2. heal or recover
  3. get healthy again

Examples

The critics call its recipes bland, unhelpful, unoriginal and unhealthy.

It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own.

We believe that it is okay to charge for healing based on the doctrine, ‘The workman is worthy of his hire.’

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