Sample Sentences forcauterize (editor-reviewed)
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She read about ancient doctors who would cauterize injuries with hot metal tools.cauterize = burn to stop bleeding
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On the battlefield, the medic had to cauterize the wound with a heated knife.
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Big God howled like a hot wind... Then Small God (cozy and contained, private and limited) came away cauterized, laughing numbly at his own temerity. (source)cauterized = a wound having been burned or seared to stop bleeding and prevent infection
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THEY SMOKED A JOINT and listened to music and after a while Nadia tried again to make Saeed have sex with her, not because she felt particularly sexy but because she wanted to cauterize the incident from outside the bank in her memory, and Saeed succeeded again in holding back, even as they pleasured each other, and he told her again that they should not have sex before they were married, that doing otherwise was against his beliefs, but it was not until he suggested she move in with his parents and him that she understood his words had been a kind of proposal.† (source)
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The assisting surgeon suctioned away blood with a hand-held tube while I cauterized small vessels.† (source)
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Because they left their initials burned into the cauterized synapses.† (source)
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After I cauterized the wound I was near death for a week, but then I recovered.† (source)
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The President may cauterize the area with little domestic uproar and small loss of life.† (source)
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At dawn on Monday they brought a woman who recited cauterizing prayers that were infallible for man and beast beside her bed, but Amaranta Ursula's passionate blood was insensible to any artifice that did not come from love.† (source)
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"He ought to have it cauterised at once," said Mr. Huxter; "especially if it's at all inflamed."† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it cauterized.
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So, then, inflammation, cauterization.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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The mate used a handsaw to square up the bone and cauterized the stump unevenly, so that the wound healed more slowly than it would have otherwise and the scar tissue left behind was thick and coarse.† (source)
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And around they go, working the wound until Barbara makes a move to cauterize it: "Either way, I'm coming for parents' weekend in October."† (source)
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I ask myself every day, 'What are you doing against Brotherhood?' and when I find it, I root it out, I burn it out like a man cauterizing a mad-dog bite.† (source)
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Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.† (source)
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Into the fire was placed the tip ofa dagger, which Roran knew Brigman would use to cauterize the wound in his back after removing the arrow, lest he bleed to death.† (source)
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