different between cicatrize vs cicatrise

English

Alternative forms

• cicatrise (British)

Etymology

From cicatrix +? -ize.

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) to form a scar
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula (Chapter XIV)

     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.

2. (transitive) to treat or heal a wound by causing a scar or cicatrix to form
   • The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

     The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrize the wound.

Translations

Anagrams

• arcticize

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?si.ka.?t?i.zi/

Verb

cicatrize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cicatrizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cicatrizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cicatrizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cicatrizar

English

Alternative forms

• cicatrize (US)

Etymology

From Old French cicatriser (French cicatriser), from Latin cic?tr?x (“scar”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?s?k.?.t?a?z/

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).
   • 1923, The Thousand Nights and One Night, translated by Powys Mathers

     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.

2. (intransitive) To form a scar.

Related terms

• cauterise
• cicatrix

Translations

French

Verb

cicatrise

1. first-person singular present indicative of cicatriser
2. third-person singular present indicative of cicatriser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cicatriser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cicatriser
5. second-person singular imperative of cicatriser