cicatrize
verb/ˈsɪkətɹaɪz/
Etymology From cicatrix + -ize.
1
To form a scar.
- 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.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:
- His back and muscular shoulders were all ridged by the cicatrized weals of warriorhood.1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 126:
2
To treat or heal (a wound) by causing a scar or cicatrix to form.
- The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound.1923, Edward Powys Mathers, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night:
- Derived terms
- uncicatrized