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- verb   Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heal .
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Examples
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								And, as America heals from the wounds they inflicted, they will continue to be less relevant. Axelrod says WH will 'substantially meet' Gitmo deadline 2009 
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								As the world-wide economy slowly heals from the Great Recession, central banks take different paths to recovery. Global Rates Tracker 2010 
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								If the servicemember returned to combat before the brain heals, a second concussion from another blast could cause significant damage, he said. 
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								Rookie Isaiah Stanback was a college quarterback but might prove to be the team's fourth receiving option if he heals from a midfoot fracture. 
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								He is expected to be Pittsburgh's starter for the next two months as Marc-Andre Fleury heals from a badly sprained ankle. USATODAY.com 2007 
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								“passing on” venereal and other diseases, and transmission is supposed to cure the patient; for instance a virgin heals (and catches) gonorrhœa. 
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								Satan’s Daughter giving Adolf Bush a flogging dressed in black dominatrix leather drag, thong and stilletto heals is such a fitting picture. 
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								Sometimes the situation becomes chronic, meaning that it never heals, which is clearly what happened with Owen Hargreaves. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011 
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								Maelstrom so you can actually make those instant heals, which is very nice. 
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								In the lowest of Schelling's stages the "life-spirit [which is the] intermediating essence between body and spirit" heals "the disorders of the body." 'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008 
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