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- verb Present participle of
cauterise .
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Examples
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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
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£1 million, while tools such as cauterising scissors have to be replaced every dozen uses, at
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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
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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.
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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
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The kind of heat that gives a warm inner glow without cauterising taste buds.
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The kind of heat that gives a warm inner glow without cauterising taste buds.
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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
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The kind of heat that gives a warm inner glow without cauterising taste buds.
Archive 2004-04-01 2004
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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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