cicatrize

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[Footnote: This fir is remarkable for its tendency to cicatrize or heal over its stumps, a property which it possesses in common with some other firs, the maritime pine, and the European larch.

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb To heal or become healed by the formation of scar tissue.

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  1. Middle English cicatrizen, from Old French cicatriser, from Medieval Latin cicātrizāre, alteration of Late Latin cicātrīcārī, to scar over, from Latin cicātrīx, cicātrīc-, cicatrix.

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  1. from cicatr(ice) + -ize; after F. cicatriser (= Spanish Portuguese cicatrizar= Italian cicatrizzare), from cicatrice: see cicatrice.
 

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/ˈsɪkətraɪz/
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