English > cauterize: 2 senses > verb 1, change| Meaning | Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Example | "The surgeon cauterized the wart" |
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| Synonyms | cauterise, burn |
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| Entails | sear, scorch | make very hot and dry |
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| Broader | burn | Burn with heat, fire, or radiation |
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| treat, care for | Provide treatment for |
| Spanish | cauterizar, foguear, incendiar |
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| Catalan | cauteritzar, incendiar |
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| Nouns | cautery, cauterization | the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing |
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| cautery, cauterant | an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it |
