cicatrize
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Verb
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- (intransitive) to form a scar
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula (Chapter XIV)
- 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.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula (Chapter XIV)
- (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
Translations
to form a scar
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to treat or heal a wound by causing a scar or cicatrix to form
Anagrams
Portuguese
Pronunciation
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Verb
cicatrize