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transitive. To dress (a wound).
To dress (a wound); to attend to as a surgeon or ‘leech’. Obsolete.
transitive. To clean, treat, or apply a dressing to (a wound, sore, etc.). Formerly also: †to treat or attend to (a wounded person) (obsolete)…
transitive. Originally Scottish. To attend to (a patient) surgically or medically; to dress (a wound). Now rare.