cicatrize
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[edit]cicatrize (third-person singular simple present cicatrizes, present participle cicatrizing, simple past and past participle cicatrized)
- (intransitive) To form a scar.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 14, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
- As for myself, I was settling down to my work with the enthusiasm which I used to have for it, so that I might fairly have said that the wound which poor Lucy left on me was becoming cicatrized.
- 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 126:
- His back and muscular shoulders were all ridged by the cicatrized weals of warriorhood.
- (transitive) To treat or heal (a wound) by causing a scar or cicatrix to form.
- 1923, Edward Powys Mathers, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night:
- The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound.
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[edit]to form a scar
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to treat or heal a wound by causing a scar or cicatrix to form
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- Hyphenation: ci‧ca‧tri‧ze
Verb
[edit]cicatrize
- inflection of cicatrizar: