heel
verb/hiːl/
/hiːl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they heel | /hiːl/ /hiːl/ |
| he / she / it heels | /hiːlz/ /hiːlz/ |
| past simple heeled | /hiːld/ /hiːld/ |
| past participle heeled | /hiːld/ /hiːld/ |
| -ing form heeling | /ˈhiːlɪŋ/ /ˈhiːlɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] heel something to repair the heel of a shoe, etc.
- [intransitive] heel (over) to lean over to one side
- The boat heeled over in the strong wind.
repair shoe
of boat
Word Originverb sense 1 Old English hēla, hǣla, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hiel. verb sense 2 late 16th cent.: from obsolete heeld, hield ‘incline’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hellen.
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