Definitions

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  • verb To burn, sear, or freeze tissue using a hot iron, electric current or a caustic agent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
  • verb make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

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Examples

  • 'At least the lawyer didn't cauterise your sense of humour.'

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • They could cauterise the Earth with that beam weapon!

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • There has never been a stronger case for firm and united action by the governments of both India and Pakistan to cauterise the cancer in their midst.

    Shashi Tharoor: Keep up the spirit to fight 2009

  • It is true I had read in John de Vigo, first book, Of Wounds in General, eighth chapter, that wounds made by firearms partake of venenosity, by reason of the powder; and for their cure he bids you cauterise them with oil of elders scalding hot, mixed with a little treacle.

    Of Oil and Earthworms Julianne Douglas 2008

  • It is true I had read in John de Vigo, first book, Of Wounds in General, eighth chapter, that wounds made by firearms partake of venenosity, by reason of the powder; and for their cure he bids you cauterise them with oil of elders scalding hot, mixed with a little treacle.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Julianne Douglas 2008

  • Does not the surgeon also cauterise and cut us for our good?

    Anabasis 2007

  • I want the Cheney's and the Bush's to know, and I want the party-first-f*cking-flunkies to know, when they are right they have allies but when they are wrong they have enemies and they are not the only ones in the world willing to fight and to die and if necessary, reluctantly for the greater good of humanity, to kill and to cauterise a cancer.

    Clone Cindy's Pelosi Strategy In Your Backyard 2007

  • Thus men cut off their own nails, hair, or corns; they allow surgeons to cut and cauterise them, not without pains and aches, and are so grateful to the doctor for his services that they further give him a fee.

    Memorabilia 2007

  • I want the Cheney's and the Bush's to know, and I want the party-first-f*cking-flunkies to know, when they are right they have allies but when they are wrong they have enemies and they are not the only ones in the world willing to fight and to die and if necessary, reluctantly for the greater good of humanity, to kill and to cauterise a cancer.

    Clone Cindy's Pelosi Strategy In Your Backyard 2007

  • A Dutch inventor proposes replacing the traditional dental drill with a ‘plasma needle’, a device that despite being cold and painless to the touch will kill dead cells and cauterise the surroundings.

    Plasma Dentistry | Blog | Futurismic 2006

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