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  • verb Present participle of cauterise.

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Examples

  • The searing of veins by the extreme heat of a lightsaber is technically known as "cauterising" ... or cauterizing, I don't remember which way it's spelled.

    Parenting 101 2005

  • £1 million, while tools such as cauterising scissors have to be replaced every dozen uses, at

    Top stories from Times Online 2009

  • Once in position, the instruments – which are still being developed – will be ordered by a radio signal to carry out whatever task the surgeons wants, such as cutting and cauterising.

    Magnetic Surgery – A Significant Breakthrough | Impact Lab 2007

  • Now I have been told by a certain physician that his mind is disordered and that nothing will cure him but drawing two of his grinders and cauterising him twice on either temple.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • This cutting/cauterising procedure is commonly performed in the vicinity of the patient's rear end, in case you didn't know.

    Flaming Flatulence RICHARD 2006

  • The kind of heat that gives a warm inner glow without cauterising taste buds.

    What I cooked last night. 2004

  • The kind of heat that gives a warm inner glow without cauterising taste buds.

    What I cooked last night. 2004

  • The only remedy they know or practise for it is cauterising, by the application of a red-hot iron to the parts.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • The kind of heat that gives a warm inner glow without cauterising taste buds.

    Archive 2004-04-01 2004

  • The spear, if one thrust it fiercely, would burn a path right through a body, searing, cauterising and killing.

    Shattered Francis, Dick 2000

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