Definitions

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  • verb transitive To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
  • verb intransitive To form a scar.

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  • verb form a scar, after an injury

Etymologies

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

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Examples

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

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

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

    The Dream Doctor 1908

  • 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 Joseph Bell 1874

  • 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, Ernest Giles 1866

  • 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 Mayne Reid 1850

  • 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 Mayne Reid 1850

  • 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 William Beckford 1801

  • 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 — Volume 16 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • 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 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • 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 2004

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