cauterise
- a variation of cauterize.
Example Sentences
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As there was some blood, Nashef used an electric device to cauterise it – a medical technique which involves burning to mitigate bleeding.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2019
Conventional wisdom has it that medics cauterise their emotions to protect themselves, but the evidence suggests that in fact suppressing their feelings makes them burn out more quickly.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2018
In her 2012 memoir, Hard Choices, she sought to cauterise the wound by admitting she had erred.
From BBC ● May 26, 2015
You know the game is up for our cocooned youth when we cauterise their vampires and make them as aggressive as Smurfs.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2010
The object of this was to cauterise the wound, a method that has been used with success in the outskirts of the world where poisonous reptiles abound and where proper antidotes cannot be had.
From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Lange, Algot
