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cauterize
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  • They were days fording that cauterized terrain.†  (source)
  • He had lost nearly a third of his blood, but the hot rails had cauterized many of his arteries.†  (source)
  • Because they left their initials burned into the cauterized synapses.†  (source)
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  • She removed the sleeve and cauterized a patch of lab-grown skin over the open wound.†  (source)
  • Got to (rinse) cauterize.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • I wonder if perhaps you are thoroughly acquainted with what he (St. Francis of Assisi) said when they were about to cauterise one of his eyeballs with a red-hot, burning iron?†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it cauterize.
  • "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.
  • 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.
  • Could be a missed blood vessel that wasn't cauterized," the doctor says.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The cauterizing iron was ready, and she stayed to see if he would scream when it was applied.†  (source)
  • 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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