cicatrise
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See also: cicatrisé
Alternative forms
- cicatrize (US)
Etymology
From Old French cicatriser (French cicatriser), from Latin cicātrīx (“scar”).
Pronunciation
Verb
cicatrise (third-person singular simple present cicatrises, present participle cicatrising, simple past and past participle cicatrised)
- (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
- 1923, Powys Mathers, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:
- But hardly had I accused myself of the theft, when my arm was seized and my right hand cut off. When the stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound, I fell down in a faint.
- (intransitive) To form a scar.
Related terms
Translations
to heal a wound through scarring
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Verb
cicatrise
- inflection of cicatriser:
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