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CICATRISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cicatrise mean?
• CICATRISE (verb)
The verb CICATRISE has 1 sense:
1. form a scar, after an injury
Familiarity information: CICATRISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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... he / she / it cicatrises Past simple: cicatrised
Past participle: cicatrised
-ing form: cicatrising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Form a scar, after an injury
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
cicatrise; cicatrize
Context example:
the skin will cicatrize and it will heal soon
Hypernyms (to "cicatrise" is one way to...):
mark; pit; pock; scar (mark with a scar)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
cicatrix (a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue)
Context examples
I thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my cicatrised visage.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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 cicatrised.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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