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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "cauterize" in a sentence

    cauterize example sentences

    cauterize


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    cauterizing


    1. She would have told Eugenia to keep Eury far away, and Philemon to hold a heated iron ready to cauterize the stump


    2. Some people believe that the best way to seal a stump after an amputation is to cauterize (as used to be done to criminals who had their hands chopped off)—but the shock of this on top of the shock of injury will kill some people


    1. Maybe Pneika just cauterized his retinas so he didn’t remember meeting her


    2. priest lit the flame, and then cauterized the wound, stroking the flame back and forth over the stump of


    3. In truth, much of that infection in Turkey will probably need to be cauterized via clandestine operations, in order to avoid political chaos and civil war there


    4. Her breasts severed and cauterized


    5. seemed to have cauterized his insides


    6. Yet it is used, duplicated, replicated, espoused, worshipped, revered, swallowed, believed, normalized, cauterized, etc… people use it to tie their shoes, people use it in scientific experiments, people use it in their religion


    7. It was now only the width of a wide pen, the edges cauterized from the lightning, and I could literally see the inside of him


    8. She was bleeding, but the bullet had struck her with such force that her wound was mostly cauterized and the blood loss was minimal


    9. It was as if the lights had been cranked up, and my skin prickled as if it had been cauterized


    10. She said to her husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thenardier, masterful and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur Thenardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thenardier replied: "Everything is permissible

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


    1. At dawn on Monday they brought a woman who recited cauterizing prayers that were infallible for man and beast beside her bed, but Amaranta Úrsula’s passionate blood was insensible to any artifice that did not come from love


    2. Cauterizing with heat requires fortitude in the patient—but, if they can stand it, and you have ammunition, placing powder around a wound and lighting it can prevent gangrene


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    Synonyms for "cauterize"

    callous cauterise cauterize burn sear singe char disinfect sterilise sterilize

    "cauterize" definitions

    burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent


    make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals