cicatrize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of cicatrize
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word cicātrizāre. See cicatrix, -ize
Example Sentences
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Time alone does a little cicatrize such wounds; and, let us add, work.
From Fabre, Poet of Science by Miall, Bernard
The wound is beginning to cicatrize, and generates laudable pus.
From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William
It was more agreeable, in an hour of self-collectedness, to devise a remedy, which, if it did not cure the disease, helped at least to cicatrize the immediate wounds.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various
This Ointment is of singular Use to cleanse Ulcers; as also to mundifie, cicatrize, and consolidate all sorts of Wounds.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel
There are certain pains that nothing can alleviate, nor heal, and there are wounds that nothing can cicatrize.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
The wound which years had scarcely cicatrized bled afresh, and oh, how bitterly!
From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace
It must be the pure, wild volition and energy of the creation which they follow—not subdued to the furrow, and cicatrized to the pollard—not persuaded into proprieties, nor pampered into diseases.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John
They looked at him with wan smiles and lusterless eyes, and hovered past shadowlike, leaving behind for him nothing but dust, nothing but a hardly cicatrized wound.
From The Youth of the Great Elector by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
The wound had become cicatrized, leaving the bone in this position.
From The Frontier Angel A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
In about three weeks, the whole had separated, and the part above the ligature was cicatrized.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
In some cases extensive wounds of the scalp heal without artificial aid by simply cicatrizing over.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
He was worried and alarmed by his helpless plight, and the wound on his head, instead of cicatrizing, became more serious, because it was complicated by a sharp attack of fever.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
The springs of Weissenburg in the Bernese Oberland yield a water which is popularly supposed to have the power of cicatrizing cavities in the lungs, but its analysis shows no reason for such a power.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
We make a tincture out of it which has marvelous healing and cicatrizing properties.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
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