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cauterize
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context chiefly US spelling English) To burn, sear, or freeze tissue using a hot iron, electric current or a caustic agent.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cauterize is the second studio album by Tremonti , a band fronted by Creed and Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti . In addition to Tremonti, who provides both lead vocals and guitar, the album features rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Eric Friedman ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cauterize \Cau"ter*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cauterized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cauterizing .] [L. cauterizare, Gr. ?, fr. a branding iron: cf. F. caut['e]rised.. See cauter .] To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. --Dunglison. To sear, as the conscience. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But do they really cauterize the wounds of historical separation and loss? ▪ Electrodiathermy to cauterize the cervix requires a general anaesthetic and is falling into disuse. ▪ He tried to scream the name but his throat felt ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart" [syn: cauterise , burn ] make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals [syn: callous , cauterise ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French cauterisier , from Late Latin cauterizare "to burn or brand with a hot iron," from Greek kauteriazein , from kauter "burning or branding iron," from kaiein "to burn" (see caustic ). Related: Cauterized ; cauterizing .
Usage examples of cauterize.
The cold cauterizes the pain, and the Fury cleans it licks its lips of the last of it and fades away.
For instance, in the treatment of polyps he says that they should be incised and cauterized.
The profession is diligently cauterizing and poulticing the sores which now and then appear on the surface, but the internal chronic disease, of which these are merely the external signs, is too often overlooked or neglected.
The Red soldiers of the 309th Rifle Division held their ground against the charge of metal but by 1000 hours the tanks sliced through them and the German grenadiers followed, falling into the defense works, cauterizing them in close-quarters fighting.
With lance, bow, cannon and flame-thrower to cauterize the Vale, a hundred thousand men roared into the canyon and were met by a million of the damned.
The steel flashed white, and the heat as its power cauterized her wound made her cry out.
I come to at his gram ma place--my stump had been cauterized and was wrapped in clean bandages.
And the message which had begun to spell itself slothfully out from it by some multi-dimensional alchemy between his fingertips and his remembrance began to sear his brain with a lambent reality that cauterized the last limp tissues of vagueness out of his awakening.
Scars that sealed me off from the past, cauterized nerve endings that turned everything that had happened to me into something happening to someone else.
She'd been hit several times, and her left arm had been shot away, the steaming wound roughly cauterized just above the elbow.
Baer's head go off in a great cauterizing, blur of light, she turned and ran for the police car on the street.
His palate, in spite of being cauterized by the Poule au Pot, was still sufficiently sensitive to recognize that whatever it was he was in the process of swallowing it most certainly wasn't Chambertin '64.
When the attack had been beaten off, the ship’s doctor had cauterized the wounds and had poured molten pitch over them.
Struan cauterized the wound in front and probed deeply and quickly, wanting to do it fast now that Zergeyev was unconscious.
He had no arms or legs or eyes or tongue, and the stumps of his limbs were cauterized with tar.