cicatrize

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Verb

cicatrize (cicatrizes, present participle cicatrizing; 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.

Translations

• German: vernarben
• Russian: рубцеваться

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