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
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A wound that, I fear, will never cicatrize.
From Lizzy Glenn or, The Trials of a Seamstress by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
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
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 L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden
Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep for ever open.
From Lectures on Art by Washington Allston
The wound is at that time, as a general thing, completely cicatrized.
From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Robert Jennings
In a year from the time of the accident, the wound, with the exception of a fistulous aperture of the stomach and side, had completely cicatrized.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
In regard to crusts, they should never be removed until the surface beneath has become cicatrized and they have been partially detached by the natural process.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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 John Ruskin
Oncle Jazon chuckled reminiscently and scratched the skinless, cicatrized spot where his scalp had once flourished.
From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
In some cases extensive wounds of the scalp heal without artificial aid by simply cicatrizing over.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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 Edward Pollock Anshutz
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 Charles Paul de Kock
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