cauterize• Electrodiathermy to cauterize the cervix requires a general anaesthetic and is falling into disuse.• If you're working class, you cauterize the working class in you.• But do they really cauterize the wounds of historicalseparation and loss?• Maybe he should have cauterized those aspects of himself long since.• He tried to scream the name but his throat felt as if it had been cauterized with a hot iron.
Origincauterize
(1500-1600)Frenchcautériser, from Latin, from cauterium“cauterizing tool”, from Greek, from kaiein; → CAUSTIC