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Cauterise

verb
1.
Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent.  Synonyms: burn, cauterize.
2.
Make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals.  Synonyms: callous, cauterize.






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"Cauterise" Quotes from Famous Books



... steaming tea-urn, called a samovar—etymologically, a "self-boiler"—will be brought in, and you will make your tea according to your taste. The tumbler, you know of course, is to be used as a cup, and when using it you must be careful not to cauterise the points of your fingers. If you should happen to have anything eatable or drinkable in your travelling basket, you need not hesitate to take it out at once, for the waiter will not feel at all aggrieved or astonished at your doing nothing ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

... leeches to my temples, no difficult matter, but the blood could not be stopped till eleven at night (they had gone too near the temporal artery for my temporal safety), and neither styptic nor caustic would cauterise the orifice till ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore



Words linked to "Cauterise" :   cauterisation, treat, cautery, scorch, burn, cauterize, callous, inure, harden, care for, indurate, sear



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