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

• cicatrization
  noun
• cicatrizer
  noun
• cicatrizant
  adjective

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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cicatrize cicatrized cicatrizing

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

Time alone does a little cicatrize such wounds; and, let us add, work.

From Fabre, Poet of Science by Miall, Bernard

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

A wound that, I fear, will never cicatrize.

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

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

Oncle Jazon chuckled reminiscently and scratched the skinless, cicatrized spot where his scalp had once flourished.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

The wounds of the Social war were scarcely cicatrized, and the peace had left the allies imperfectly satisfied.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony

I know it will be long before the wounds of our faithful hearts are cicatrized.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

On the brown flesh of his forearm I saw a queer, ragged white cross—the scar a snake bite leaves when it is cicatrized.

From The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

The inferior parts of the cheeks were cicatrized with the lateral and superior regions of the neck, and with the base of the tongue and the hyoid bone.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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