cicatrize
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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.
- (transitive) To treat or heal (a wound) by causing a scar or cicatrix to form.
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
- The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrize the wound.
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
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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
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cicatrize
- inflection of cicatrizar: