cicatrize

American  

[sik-uh-trahyz] / ˈsɪk əˌtraɪz /

especially British, cicatrise

verb (used with object)

cicatrized, cicatrizing

1. Physiology. to heal by inducing the formation of a cicatrix.

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verb (used without object)

cicatrized, cicatrizing

1. to become healed by the formation of a cicatrix.

cicatrize British  

/ ˈsɪkəˌtraɪz /

verb

1. (of a wound or defect in tissue) to close or be closed by scar formation; heal

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Other Word Forms

• cicatrizant adjective
• cicatrization noun
• cicatrizer noun

Etymology

Origin of cicatrize

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word cicātrizāre. See cicatrix, -ize

Example Sentences

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

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep for ever open.

From Lectures on Art by Allston, Washington

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

A wound that, I fear, will never cicatrize.

From Lizzy Glenn or, The Trials of a Seamstress by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

You would thus heal the wound, not cicatrize it.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)