unhealed

/ ʌnˈhiːld /

adjective

Three years after a short war between Russia and Georgia for control of the region, South Ossetia reveals its unhealed scars.

Nowadays, trendier issues have moved to the fore, but the scar remains, unhealed.

There must have been an unhealed wound of some kind—a slight scratch would do it—on his hand.

These Union men had wounds still unhealed from service in the Civil War.

Quickly they removed a metal disk fastened to his arm, exposing a small orifice like an unhealed wound.

I exclaimed sharply, and a spasm of pain, like the entrance of poison into an unhealed wound, contracted my heart.

They found that the wound on his breast was still unhealed, and that there was a mysterious fresh wound upon his arm.

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