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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
cauterise .
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Examples
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Well, to remove 'rhoids medical practitioners have this soldering iron thingy that cuts and cauterises the offending blighters.
Flaming Flatulence RICHARD 2006
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These Rats feed on nothing but good stuff, such as wheat, corn, and meal; and from experience I find that if a man is bitten on the hand by one of these Brown or Stack Rats it never “takes bad ways,” but, if bitten by a dirty Drain Rat, then whether he cauterises or bathes the wound is no matter, it is sure to “take bad ways.”
Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher Matthews, Ike 1898
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But investors, let alone voters, won't pour billions into the banks until eurozone leaders reverse an acute loss of credibility with some definitive leadership that somehow unites Europe under a credible, but also deliverable, plan and cauterises the problem of debt and overspending once and for all.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Look, listen, learn, see, say, do and enjoy for: Criticism cauterises Aalysis agonises Education galvanises.
PoetryFoundation.org 2009
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