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cicatrised

cicatrised is the simple past and past participle of cicatrise.

Meaning of cicatrise

Verb

cicatrise (third-person singular simple present cicatrises, present participle cicatrising, simple past and past participle cicatrised)

  1. (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
    • But hardly had I accused myself of the theft, when my arm was seized and my right hand cut off. When the stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound, I fell down in a faint.1923, Powys Mathers, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night
  2. (intransitive) To form a scar.

Questions about cicatrised

What is cicatrised the simple past and past participle of?
Cicatrised is the simple past and past participle of cicatrise.

Words near cicatrised in the dictionary

  1. cicatricule
  2. cicatricules
  3. cicatrisation
  4. cicatrisations
  5. cicatrise
  6. cicatrised
  7. cicatrises
  8. cicatrising
  9. cicatrisive
  10. cicatrix
  11. cicatrixes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cicatrised (page history and authors); cicatrise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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