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

  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.

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. Recover as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To reach (a place), arrive at.

  4. Recover as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.

  5. 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"

  6. 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."

  7. Recover as a verb (intransitive):

    To get better, regain one's health.

    Examples:

    "I was hurt, but I knew I'd recover, given time."

  8. 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."

  9. Recover as a verb (intransitive, legal):

    To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit.

    Examples:

    "The plaintiff has recovered in his suit."

  10. 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"

  11. Recover as a verb (transitive, legal):

    To gain by legal process.

    Examples:

    "to recover judgement against a defendant"

  1. Recover as a noun (obsolete):

    Recovery.

  2. 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.

  3. Recover as a noun (rowing):

    The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another.

  1. Recover as a verb:

    To cover again.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sir Walter Scott"

  2. Recover as a verb (roofing):

    To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.

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