cicatrise

verb3

1. •
   To form a scar.

   • 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. — 1897
2. •
   To treat or heal (a wound) by causing a scar or cicatrix to form.

   • The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound. — 1923
3. •
   To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).

   • 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. — 1923