unhealing

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adjective

That does not heal.

Scrabble 13
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Meanings

unhealing1

adjectiveunhealing (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThat does not heal.

    Those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

unhealing2

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of unheal

Origin

From un- + healing.

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APA

unhealing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhealing

MLA

“unhealing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhealing. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unhealing,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhealing.

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