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Cauterize   Listen
verb
Cauterize  v. t.  (past & past part. cauterized; pres. part. cauterizing)  
1.
To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
2.
To sear, as the conscience.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cauterize" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rule 3.—Cauterize. Dip wooden meat skewer, or lead pencil, into pure nitric acid, and rub into wound. Or, use red-hot poker, or red-hot nail grasped by tongs or pincers, or ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) • Various



Words linked to "Cauterize" :   harden, cautery, treat, indurate, cauterise, care for, sear



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