cicatrize
English
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, Dracula (Chapter XIV)
- 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 (Chapter XIV)
- (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.
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
Translations
to form a scar
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to treat or heal a wound by causing a scar or cicatrix to form
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌsi.ka.ˈtɾi.zi/
Verb
cicatrize
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cicatrizar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cicatrizar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cicatrizar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cicatrizar
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