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CICATRIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cicatrize mean?
• CICATRIZE (verb)
The verb CICATRIZE has 1 sense:
1. form a scar, after an injury
Familiarity information: CICATRIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they cicatrize ... he / she / it cicatrizes
Past simple: cicatrized
Past participle: cicatrized
-ing form: cicatrizing
... he / she / it cicatrizes Past simple: cicatrized
Past participle: cicatrized
-ing form: cicatrizing
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 "cicatrize" 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)
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