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cicatrizing

cicatrizing is the present participle and gerund of cicatrize.

Meaning of cicatrize

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
  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

Words formed from cicatrizing

Questions about cicatrizing

What is cicatrizing the present participle and gerund of?
Cicatrizing is the present participle and gerund of cicatrize.

Words near cicatrizing in the dictionary

  1. cicatrization
  2. cicatrizations
  3. cicatrize
  4. cicatrized
  5. cicatrizes
  6. cicatrizing
  7. cicatrose
  8. CICC
  9. Ciccarelli
  10. Ciccarellis
  11. Ciccarello

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