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Cauterized

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.]

  1. To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
    --Dunglison.

  2. To sear, as the conscience.
    --Jer. Taylor.

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cauterized

vb. (en-past of: cauterize)

Usage examples of "cauterized".

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.

Hansen found to his surprise that it wasn't slick with dry, clotted blood down the left side, because the arc that burned off the former owner's arm had also cauterized the blood vessels.

The wounds were cauterized by the arc that made them, but the shock of the high voltage and double amputation would certainly be fatal.

Where the chest had been there was now a gaping, blackened hole, its edges cauterized by intense heat.

The intense heat of the energy bolt had instantly cauterized her wounds, but she was legless from her thighs down and continued screaming, writhing on the floor in agony.

Guess I shouldn't gripe—being a burn job it's cauterized, not much blood.

He had cauterized his emotions, he'd thought, coming in here, for his own protection, but he could feel his carefully cultivated impartiality slipping.

Illusion had been burned out of her like an infection, leaving a cauterized scar.

Using a clean handkerchief to bind the cauterized wound, he tried to stand and found that normal walking was impossible.

Some bastard had cauterized all the synapses and electronically traumatised those two lumps of cerebellum.

The beam's intense heat instantly cauterized the wound, stopping any visible bleeding-not that that mattered much to Bilk.

The Gotal shrieked and fell in a heap on the pavement, clutching his cauterized stump.

He didn't feel any pain, did not in fact realize what had happened until he saw the blackened, cauterized stump at the end of his arm.