Cicatrize
verb
verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To form a scar. intransitive
"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."
- 2 form a scar, after an injury wordnet
- 3 To treat or heal (a wound) by causing a scar or cicatrix to form. transitive
"The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From cicatrix + -ize.
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