misheal
verbEtymology
From mis- + heal.
- derived from *kéh₂ilos✻
- inherited from *hailijaną✻
- inherited from *hailijan✻
- inherited from hǣlan
- inherited from helen
Definitions
To heal improperly.
- It's a loss that occurred when his wife's injuries from the accident healed or mishealed in such а manner as to now cause her to be unable to have sex without pain.
- Her hand ached and she looked down to see an ugly scar stretching across the ball of her thumb. It was already old and long since mishealed.
To provide the incorrect treatment to someone one is attempting to heal.
- Some “famous doctors" referred patients to him that they could not heal or those they had mishealed.
- Akras touched her scarred cheeks, tracing the hard ridges of deliberately mishealed flesh.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA