cicatrize

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)

  1. (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.
  2. (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

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌsi.ka.ˈtɾi.zi/

Verb

cicatrize

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cicatrizar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cicatrizar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cicatrizar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cicatrizar
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