cicatrise
See also cicatrisé
English
Alternative forms
- cicatrize (US)
Etymology
From Old French cicatriser (French cicatriser), from Latin cicātrīx (“scar”).
Pronunciation
Verb
cicatrise (third-person singular simple present cicatrises, present participle cicatrising, simple past and past participle cicatrised)
- (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
- 1923, The Thousand Nights and One Night, translated by Powys Mathers
- But hardly had I accused myself of the theft, when my arm was seized and my right hand cut off. When the stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound, I fell down in a faint.
- 1923, The Thousand Nights and One Night, translated by Powys Mathers
- (intransitive) To form a scar.
Related terms
Translations
to heal a wound through scarring
to form a scar
French
Verb
cicatrise
- first-person singular present indicative of cicatriser
- third-person singular present indicative of cicatriser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cicatriser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cicatriser
- second-person singular imperative of cicatriser