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cicatrize

/ˈsɪkətɹaɪz/

cicatrize verb: to form a scar.

Verb

cicatrize (third-person singular simple present cicatrizes, present participle cicatrizing, simple past and past participle cicatrized)

  1. (intransitive) To form a scar.
    • 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.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC
    • His back and muscular shoulders were all ridged by the cicatrized weals of warriorhood.1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 126
  2. (transitive) To treat or heal (a wound) by causing a scar or cicatrix to form.
    • The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound.1923, Edward Powys Mathers, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

cicatrize meaning in Bengali

cicatrize in Bengali

ক্ষতচিহ্ন, দাগ তৈরি হওয়া

Forms of cicatrize

third-person singular presentcicatrizes
present participlecicatrizing
past participlecicatrized
pastcicatrized
alternative UKcicatrise

Origin of cicatrize

From cicatrix + -ize.

Words formed from cicatrize

Questions about cicatrize

What does cicatrize mean?
Cicatrize means to form a scar.
What is cicatrize in Bengali?
Cicatrize in Bengali is ক্ষতচিহ্ন, দাগ তৈরি হওয়া. See Cicatrize meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is cicatrize?
Cicatrize is a verb.
How do you pronounce cicatrize?
Cicatrize is pronounced /ˈsɪkətɹaɪz/.
What is the past tense of cicatrize?
The past tense of cicatrize is cicatrized.

Words near cicatrize in the dictionary

  1. cicatrizated
  2. cicatrizates
  3. cicatrizating
  4. cicatrization
  5. cicatrizations
  6. cicatrize
  7. cicatrized
  8. cicatrizes
  9. cicatrizing
  10. cicatrose
  11. CICC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cicatrize (page history and authors); cicatrize (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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