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Cauterize   /kˈɔtəraɪz/   Listen
Cauterize

verb
(past & past part. cauterized; pres. part. cauterizing)
1.
Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent.  Synonyms: burn, cauterise.
2.
Make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals.  Synonyms: callous, cauterise.






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"Cauterize" Quotes from Famous Books



... on whose stern, cold features the light fell so brightly, was the very man to accomplish such a work of destruction, and Philippus awaited his first words as a wounded man watches the surgeon heating the iron with which to cauterize the sore. ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers



Words linked to "Cauterize" :   care for, callous, scorch, inure, sear, burn, treat, cauterization, harden, cauterise, indurate, cautery, cauterant



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