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Answer for the clue "Freeze injured cartilage right away ", 8 letters:
glaciate

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Word definitions for glaciate in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. cover with ice or snow or a glacier; "the entire area was glaciated" become frozen and covered with glaciers

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glaciate \Gla"ci*ate\, v. i. [L. glaciatus, p. p. of glaciare to freeze, fr. glacies ice.] To turn to ice.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To cover with ice or a glacier 2 To erode with a glacier 3 To freeze

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "to freeze;" 1865 in reference to glaciers, from Latin glaciatus , past participle of glaciare "to turn to ice," from glacies (see glacial ).

Usage examples of glaciate.

There was a row of arched loopholes or windows about four feet wide and five feet high, spaced quite symmetrically along the points of the star and at its inner angles, and with the bottoms about four feet from the glaciated surface.

The littered floor was quite heavily glaciated, and we fancied that the true bottom lay at a considerably lower depth.

Europe and north America were heavily glaciated in what we think of as the last Ice Age, it was not because of some mysterious slow-acting climatic factor, but rather because those areas of land were then situated much closer to the North Pole than they are today.

Detailed land fossils show a major movement of plant and animal species at the time, especially into formerly glaciated terrain.

Bitter frosts over the past week had glaciated the topsnow, making it crackle underfoot.

The nearer ground was strewn with glaciated boulders and supported nothing but a stunted Alpine vegetation of compact clustering stems and stalkless flowers.

Bitter frosts over the past week had glaciated the topsnow, making it crackle underfoot.

On his arrival she put him to work with the team designing second- and third-generation plants for the glaciated regions of the northern hemisphere.