Cicatrize

v. t. [imp. & p. p. CICATRIZED; p. pr. & vb. n. CICATRIZING.] [Fr. cicatriser, from cicatrice, Lat. cicatrix, scar.] To heal and induce the formation of a cicatrice in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.

This opens an old wound and makes a new one. Would it were cicatrized! Massinger.