Showing posts with label heal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heal. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

heel, heal

Heel or heel means the part of your foot that is at the bottom of your leg--
She had something in her shoe that made her heel hurt.
New shoes sometimes scrape the back of your heel.
Shoes have heels--
I lost the heel of my shoe!
She has trouble walking in high heels.
The shoe repair place will put new heels on your shoes.

Heal or heal ( rhymes with heel ) means to get better, as an injury--
It took months for his broken leg to heal.
The doctor said that your incision should heal without a scar.
Heal is an old-fashioned term for cure--
He claimed to be able to heal the sick.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"It may take a month for that injury to your heel to heal."

Note--not to be confused with "he'll", a contraction ( short, informal form ) of "he will"--
My brother said he'll drive us to the movies.
Don't give the dog pizza. He'll get sick.