The skin will cicatrize and it will heal soon. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He incorrectly spelled "cicatrize" (to heal with the formation of a scar), ending his National Spelling Bee experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Examiner Home RSS] Reference
There are certain pains that nothing can alleviate, nor heal, and there are wounds that nothing can cicatrize. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
And if any part that is to come away shall fall off, the part will incarnate sooner when thus treated than otherwise, and will more speedily cicatrize. From Wordnik.com. [On Fractures] Reference
It was more agreeable, in an hour of self-collectedness, to devise a remedy, which, if it did not cure the disease, helped at least to cicatrize the immediate wounds. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
Thomas Henderson maintains that the results of iridectomy are beneficial because the raw edges of the coloboma, which do not cicatrize, permit access of the aqueous to the iris veins, and that myotics, inasmuch as they contract the pupil, open the iris crypts and therefore act, less efficiently, perhaps, but act none the less like an iridectomy. From Wordnik.com. [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference
Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Art] Reference
The wound is beginning to cicatrize, and generates laudable pus. From Wordnik.com. [The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
It has also been applied to ulcers when the indication is to cicatrize them. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
This perforation had been made during life, for the edges had commenced to cicatrize. From Wordnik.com. [A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians] Reference
Fungating ulcerations may in some cases be made to cicatrize by superficial cauterization. From Wordnik.com. [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference
But if they have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment, -- the wounds cicatrize, and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt. From Wordnik.com. [The Conduct of Life (1860)] Reference
The decoction of the root is alterative and purgative; and is also said to be valuable in washing sores and ulcers, in order to change the mode of their vitality, and to make them cicatrize. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
In a moment all was destroyed; past prosperity, hopes of the future; it needed a whole century, a minister called Richelieu and a king called Louis the Fourteenth, to cicatrize the wound made in France by Ravaillac's knife. From Wordnik.com. [Une fille du régent. English] Reference
The federalists, during their short-lived ascendancy, have, nevertheless, by forcing us from the embargo, inflicted a wound on our interests which can never be cured, and on our affections which will require time to cicatrize. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference
"He feels very sore at the rumored intentions to relieve him, and the major-generalcy does not cicatrize the wound. From Wordnik.com. [Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865] Reference
And so with the roots of the wood sorrel I treat catarrhs, and with the decoction of althea roots I make plasters for skin diseases; burrs cicatrize eczemas; by chopping and grinding the snakeroot rhizome I treat diarrheas and certain female complaints; pepper is a fine digestive; coltsfoot eases the cough; and we have good gentian also for the digestion, and I have glycyrrhiza, and juniper for making excellent infusions, and elder bark with which I make a decoction for the liver, soapwort, whose roots are macerated in cold water for catarrh, and valerian, whose properties you surely know. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Name of the Rose]
But carry wounds that none can cicatrize. From Wordnik.com. [The Burghers] Reference
A wound that, I fear, will never cicatrize. From Wordnik.com. [Lizzy Glenn] Reference
You would thus heal the wound, not cicatrize it. From Wordnik.com. [A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861] Reference
6. cicatrize. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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