cicatrize

• cicatrise (UK)

From cicatrix +‎ -ize.

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cicatrize (third-person singular simple present cicatrizes, present participle cicatrizing, simple past and past participle cicatrized)

1. (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.

2. (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.

• arcticize

• Hyphenation: ci‧ca‧tri‧ze

cicatrize

1. inflection of cicatrizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative