sanare
to heal
verb sah-NAH-reh Rare
Origin: From Latin 'sanare', from 'sanus' (healthy).
Also means
to settle (a debt)
Usage Note
Sanare has a medical sense (to cure a wound or illness) and a financial/legal sense (to regularize or settle — sanare un debito means to clear a debt, sanare una situazione to remedy a situation). In bureaucratic Italian it also means to retroactively legalize something irregular (sanare un abuso edilizio). It takes avere as auxiliary.
Examples
"Il medico ha sanato la ferita."
Natural Translation
The doctor healed the wound.

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