The difference between Heal and Recover
When used as nouns, heal means a spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment, whereas recover means recovery.
When used as verbs, heal means to make better from a disease, wound, etc, whereas recover means to get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc.).
check bellow for the other definitions of Heal and Recover
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Heal as a verb (transitive):
To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
Examples:
"This bandage will heal your cut."
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Heal as a verb (intransitive):
To become better or healthy again.
Examples:
"Bandages allow cuts to heal."
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Heal as a verb:
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
Examples:
"to heal dissensions"
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Heal as a noun (RPG, countable):
A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
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Heal as a noun (obsolete, uncountable):
health
Examples:
"rfquotek Chaucer"
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Heal as a verb (transitive, obsolete, _, or, _, dialectal):
To hide; conceal; keep secret.
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Heal as a verb (transitive):
To cover, as for protection.
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Recover as a verb (transitive):
To get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc.).
Examples:
"After days of inquiries, he finally recovered his lost wallet."
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Recover as a verb (transitive):
To return to, resume (a given state of mind or body).
Examples:
"At the top of the hill I asked to stop for a few minutes to recover my strength."
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Recover as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To reach (a place), arrive at.
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Recover as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
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Recover as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.
Examples:
"to recover lost time"
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Recover as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To get better from; to get over.
Examples:
"To the end of his days, he never fully recovered his daughter's death."
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Recover as a verb (intransitive):
To get better, regain one's health.
Examples:
"I was hurt, but I knew I'd recover, given time."
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Recover as a verb (intransitive):
To regain one's composure, balance etc.
Examples:
"Spinning round, he caught a stone with his ankle, but recovered quickly before turning to face me."
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Recover as a verb (intransitive, legal):
To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit.
Examples:
"The plaintiff has recovered in his suit."
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Recover as a verb (transitive, legal):
To gain as compensation or reparation.
Examples:
"to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law"
"to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery"
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Recover as a verb (transitive, legal):
To gain by legal process.
Examples:
"to recover judgement against a defendant"
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Recover as a noun (obsolete):
Recovery.
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Recover as a noun (military):
A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.
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Recover as a noun (rowing):
The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another.
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Recover as a verb:
To cover again.
Examples:
"rfquotek Sir Walter Scott"
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Recover as a verb (roofing):
To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.