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rehealing

rehealing is the present participle and gerund of reheal.

Meaning of reheal

Verb

reheal (third-person singular simple present reheals, present participle rehealing, simple past and past participle rehealed)

  1. (transitive) To heal again.
    • “So if a crack were to occur in the same location, you couldn’t reheal it,” she said.2007 June 19, Henry Fountain, “Cockroaches Conditioned to Salivate at a Scent, Not Pavlov’s Dinner Bell”, in New York Times

Questions about rehealing

What is rehealing the present participle and gerund of?
Rehealing is the present participle and gerund of reheal.

Words near rehealing in the dictionary

  1. reheaders
  2. reheading
  3. reheads
  4. reheal
  5. rehealed
  6. rehealing
  7. reheals
  8. reheap
  9. reheaped
  10. reheaping
  11. reheaps

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