cicatrise

• cicatrize (US)

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

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪk.ə.tɹaɪz/

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cicatrise (third-person singular simple present cicatrises, present participle cicatrising, simple past and past participle cicatrised)

1. (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
   • 1923, Powys Mathers, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:

     But hardly had I accused myself of the theft, when my arm was seized and my right hand cut off. When the stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound, I fell down in a faint.

2. (intransitive) To form a scar.

• cauterise
• cicatrix

cicatrise

1. inflection of cicatriser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative