heal

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Basically snare and lock down the opponent while applying your diseases and building up a bit of runic power then BAM unload with a few frost shocks and watch them hit the deck. death Strike has been fixed now so that i get a 2. 3k heal which is nice.

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  1. transitive verb To restore to health or soundness; cure. See Synonyms at cure.
  2. transitive verb To set right; repair: healed the rift between us.
  3. transitive verb To restore (a person) to spiritual wholeness.
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  • My hope is that this man and this woman can forgive, heal, and rediscover one another. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • You should take down Alice first since she can heal, and attack her continuously so she doesn't have time to cast any spell. —  IGN Complete
  • She says she's open to all kinds of practices that help people heal, and hopes to hold a holistic health exposition in town that could draw other practitioners. —  WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
  • But built into the heal is bound to break it before it can properly keep track. —  Coolest Gadgets
  • To help the economy heal, the government has spent up a storm since September 2008 in an attempt to restore the flow of credit, boost the job and housing markets and - with Obama's plan - get consumers spending again. —  CNN.com
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magic ·  magical ·  very ·  medicine ·  cure ·  cleanse ·  salvation ·  recovery ·  regeneration ·  health ·  transformation ·  forgiveness

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heal:   healing ·  healed
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English healen, from Old English hǣlan; see kailo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English helen, from Anglo-Saxon hǣlan (= Old Saxon hēlian = OFries. hēla = Dutch heelen = Middle Low German hēlen, heilen, Low German helen = Old High German heilan, Middle High German G. heilen = Icelandic heila = Swedish hela = Danish hele = Gothic (Moesogothic) hailjan), heal, make whole, from hāl, whole: see whole, and cf. holy, hale, hail, health, etc.
  2. Also dial. hale; from Middle English hele, from Anglo-Saxon hǣlu, hǣlo, health, safety, salvation, from hāl, whole: see heal, v., and cf. health.
  3. Also heel (see def. 2 (b)); from Middle English helen, hilen, from Anglo-Saxon helan (preterit hæl, plural hǣlon, past participle holen) = Old Saxon helan = OFries. hela = Dutch helen = Middle Low German helen = Old High German helan, Middle High German heln, German hehlen, cover, conceal, = Latin celare, cover, conceal (in comp. concelare, later ult. English conceal, q. v.), akin to occulere, hide (later ult. English occult, q.v.), to cella, a hut, cell (later ult. English cell, q. v.), to Greek καλύπτειν, cover, conceal, etc. From the same Teutonic root are English hall, hell, hell, hill, hull, hole, hold, hollow, helm, etc.
 

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