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cicatrise

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form). 2 (context intransitive English) To form a scar.

WordNet
cicatrise

v. form a scar, after an injury; "the skin will cicatrize and it will heal soon" [syn: cicatrize]

Usage examples of "cicatrise".

Yakobah slave, with straight lines cicatrised in curious patterns all over his body.

I thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my cicatrised visage.

The wound which years had scarcely cicatrised bled afresh, and oh, how bitterly!