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Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
  2. v. intransitive To form a scar.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. form a scar, after an injury

Etymologies

  1. From Old French cicatriser (French cicatriser), from Latin cicātrīx ("scar"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “A dire vrai on la voit que quand il fait froid parce que je cicatrise tres bien ...”

    pinku-tk Diary Entry

  • “Aseptic wounds could probably be made to cicatrise more rapidly.”

    The Dream Doctor

  • “It used to be advised that an elliptical portion of the wall of the trachea be removed; this, though succeeding well enough for a time, was unscientific, as the wound always tended to cicatrise, and ended of course in permanent narrowing of the canal of the trachea.”

    A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners

  • “A custom among the natives here is to cicatrise in parallel horizontal lines the abdomens of the female portion of the community.”

    Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,

  • “It will cause ordinary wounds to cicatrise in a few hours, and even "ugly gashes" will yield to it in time.”

    The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse

  • “Basil had given her shanks a fresh touch of the bear's grease; and the scars which the cougar had made were likely to cicatrise speedily.”

    The Boy Hunters

  • “Caliph, who was eager to cicatrise himself and attend the ceremonial; nor could he have been dissuaded, had not his excessive weakness disabled him from walking; at the few first steps he fell on the ground, and his people were obliged to lay him on a bed, where he remained many days in such a state of insensibility, as excited compassion in the Emir himself.”

    The History of Caliph Vathek

  • “Whoever should once make my soul lose her footing, would never set her upright again: she retastes and researches herself too profoundly, and too much to the quick, and therefore would never let the wound she had received heal and cicatrise.”

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete

  • “Allah!” reached to the Caliph, who was eager to cicatrise himself and attend the ceremonial; nor could he have been dissuaded, had not his excessive weakness disabled him from walking; at the few first steps he fell on the ground, and his people were obliged to lay him on a bed, where he remained many days in such a state of insensibility, as excited compassion in the”

    The History of the Caliph Vathek

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