heal
verb (used with object)
to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
unhealable
-
a word derived from
heal.
Example Sentences
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Still, you can’t pattern a movie after Citizen Kane unless your protagonist has an unhealable wound, so Mank seems to have made this one up.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2020
“Detective Trapp” has the semblance of a police procedural but is really a profile of a detective of high competence and uncommon dedication, walking through unimaginable darkness, and driven in part by unhealable personal wounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2019
Biggie Smalls didn’t alter the hip-hop landscape so much as crater it, leaving behind an unfillable void and an unhealable wound.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2014
The reopening of an unhealable wound is sore enough work.
From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred
It seemed to her, now, that nothing mattered except that their love for each other, their faith in each other, should be saved from some unhealable hurt.
From The Glimpses of the Moon by Wharton, Edith
