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Cicatrize

verb

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Verb
  1. 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. 2
    form a scar, after an injury wordnet
  3. 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."

Etymology

From cicatrix + -ize.

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