SINCE 1828
unhealed
adjective
un·healed
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Definition of unhealed
: not healed
an unhealed wound unhealed bitterness
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Unlike healthy people, hospital patients are more susceptible to MRSA due to their existing illness, having unhealed wounds or invasive medical devices (such as catheters). — Susan Scutti, CNN, "A dozen cases of MRSA confirmed in Pittsburgh hospital NICU," 2 July 2019 For the women who were raped, the arrest opened an unhealed wound. — Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, "The Man in the Window: Closing in on DeAngelo (Part Four)," 23 June 2019 More than four decades after Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel prize for exposing the horrors of Stalin’s purges, Russian literature is again returning to the subject, examining an unhealed wound. — Maria Danilova, The Seattle Times, "Russian novel tells story of survival, love in Stalin’s camp," 14 Jan. 2019 Will's effervescent, charming girlfriend with an unhealed trauma in her not-so-distant past has been sucked into a cult. — refinery29.com, "R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries Gives A Glimpse Into A Cult's Magnetic Pull," 6 July 2018 In the middle of this bid for connection is a beautifully raw account of the physical toll of unhealed trauma. — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, "On Junot Díaz’s ‘The Silence’ and Our Uncomfortable Reckoning," 24 Apr. 2018 Yet in America, 154 years after the end of the Civil War, each succeeding generation of Americans seems to inherit from its parents the toxicity of an unhealed relationship between blacks and whites. — Marianne Williamson, Washington Post, "Why we need both a national apology and reparations to heal the wounds of racism," 4 Apr. 2018 Her dramas are sites of living history, too, where personal stories of racism’s unhealed wounds mingle with dark tales thieved from the Brothers Grimm and 1940s Hollywood. — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, "Adrienne Kennedy, Playwright: Still Quiet, Still Bold, Still Furious," 10 Jan. 2018 If left unhealed, the widening political divide would be a major blow to a nation that has been a key security partner to Western countries and had been seen as East Africa’s most stable democracy. — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, "Kenyatta sweeps Kenya’s presidential vote as opposition warns of ‘resistance’," 27 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unhealed.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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unhealed
adjective
un·healed
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Medical Definition of unhealed
: not healed
unhealed wounds
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