The difference between Cure and Heal

When used as nouns, cure means a method, device or medication that restores good health, whereas heal means a spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.

When used as verbs, cure means to restore to health, whereas heal means to make better from a disease, wound, etc.


check bellow for the other definitions of Cure and Heal

  1. Cure as a noun:

    A method, device or medication that restores good health.

  2. Cure as a noun:

    Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.

  3. Cure as a noun:

    A solution to a problem.

  4. Cure as a noun:

    A process of preservation, as by smoking.

  5. Cure as a noun:

    A process of solidification or gelling.

  6. Cure as a noun (engineering):

    A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.

  7. Cure as a noun (obsolete):

    Care, heed, or attention.

  8. Cure as a noun:

    Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.

  9. Cure as a noun:

    That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.

  1. Cure as a verb (transitive):

    To restore to health.

    Examples:

    "Unaided nature cured him."

  2. Cure as a verb (transitive):

    To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.

    Examples:

    "Unaided nature cured his ailments."

  3. Cure as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to be rid of (a defect).

    Examples:

    "Experience will cure him of his naïveté."

  4. Cure as a verb (transitive):

    To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.

    Examples:

    "The smoke and heat cures the meat."

  5. Cure as a verb (intransitive):

    To bring about a cure of any kind.

  6. Cure as a verb (intransitive):

    To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.

    Examples:

    "The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure."

  7. Cure as a verb:

    To preserve (food), typically by salting

  8. Cure as a verb (intransitive):

    To solidify or gel.

    Examples:

    "The parts were curing in the autoclave."

  9. Cure as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To become healed.

  10. Cure as a verb (obsolete):

    To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

  1. Heal as a verb (transitive):

    To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.

    Examples:

    "This bandage will heal your cut."

  2. Heal as a verb (intransitive):

    To become better or healthy again.

    Examples:

    "Bandages allow cuts to heal."

  3. Heal as a verb:

    To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.

    Examples:

    "to heal dissensions"

  1. Heal as a noun (RPG, countable):

    A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.

  2. Heal as a noun (obsolete, uncountable):

    health

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Chaucer"

  1. Heal as a verb (transitive, obsolete, _, or, _, dialectal):

    To hide; conceal; keep secret.

  2. Heal as a verb (transitive):

    To cover, as for protection.

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