cicatrize

English

Alternative forms

• cicatrise (UK)

Etymology

From cicatrix +‎ -ize.

Verb

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.

2. (transitive) To treat or heal (a wound) by causing a scar or cicatrix to form.
   • (Can we date this quote by The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrize the wound.

Derived terms

• uncicatrized

 

Translations

to form a scar

• Bulgarian: зараствам (zarastvam) (с белег)
• Catalan: cicatritzar (ca)
• German: vernarben (de)
• Russian: рубцеваться (ru) (rubcevatʹsja)
• Spanish: cicatrizar (es)

to treat or heal a wound by causing a scar or cicatrix to form

Anagrams

• arcticize

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /si.kaˈtɾi.zi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /si.kaˈtɾi.zi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /si.kaˈtɾi.ze/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /si.kɐˈtɾi.zɨ/

• Hyphenation: ci‧ca‧tri‧ze

Verb

cicatrize

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