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CAUTERIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they cauterize ... he / she / it cauterizes
Past simple: cauterized
Past participle: cauterized
-ing form: cauterizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cauterize" is one way to...):
harden; indurate; inure (cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
Example:
The surgeon cauterized the wart
Synonyms:
burn; cauterise; cauterize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cauterize" is one way to...):
care for; treat (provide treatment for)
burn (damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation)
"Cauterize" entails doing...:
scorch; sear (make very hot and dry)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
cauterant (an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it)
cauterization; cautery (the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing)
cautery (an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it)
