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English
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Etymology
From cicatrix + -ize.
Verb
cicatrize (third-person singular simple present cicatrizes, present participle cicatrizing, simple past and past participle cicatrized)
- (intransitive) To form a scar.
1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 14, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:As for myself, I was settling down to my work with the enthusiasm which I used to have for it, so that I might fairly have said that the wound which poor Lucy left on me was becoming cicatrized.
- (transitive) To treat or heal (a wound) by causing a scar or cicatrix to form.
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
- The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrize the wound.
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ci‧ca‧tri‧ze
Verb
cicatrize
- inflection of cicatrizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative