cicatrize
/ˈsɪkətɹaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "His back and muscular shoulders were all ridged by the cicatrized weals of warriorhood."
- "The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin cicatrixbor. English cicatrix Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English cicatrize From cicatrix + -ize.