heal
verb (used with object)
to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
unhealable
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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
I imagine this is not uncommon among married people,—this unhealable break in their routine of association when one departs.
From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe
The beggar can never forget his past joys in contemplating the present or hoping for the future, but it must ever remain a source of never-failing regret and the fountain of unhealable wounds.
From The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Alex St. Clair Abrams
