Sample sentences for CAUTERIZE

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Definition

burning or searing a wound to stop bleeding and prevent infection

cauterized the wound

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.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things

cauterized = a wound having been burned or seared to stop bleeding and prevent infection

Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.
George Orwell -- 1984
On the way he kicks my legs black-and-blue from the knees down; and I've got to have two or three bites on my thumb and hand cauterized.
O. Henry -- The Ransom of Red Chief
So, then, inflammation, cauterization.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain

(editor's note: 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.)

Because they left their initials burned into the cauterized synapses.
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Could be a missed blood vessel that wasn't cauterized," the doctor says.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
Got to (rinse) cauterize.
Stephen King -- Misery
Thenardier, masterful and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques Rousseau did even better!"
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
She removed the sleeve and cauterized a patch of lab-grown skin over the open wound.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
After I cauterized the wound I was near death for a week, but then I recovered.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
The explosion cauterized him right clean.
James Dashner -- The Kill Order
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."
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
If it does, we'll have to cauterize your shoulder.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
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.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
He had lost nearly a third of his blood, but the hot rails had cauterized many of his arteries.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
He had sodomized one victim, then cauterized her.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
The code for the directive was Cautery, since the function of the bomb was to cauterize the infection—to burn it out, and thus prevent its spread.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
Rawlins eyed balefully that cauterized terrain.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
The cauterizing iron was ready, and she stayed to see if he would scream when it was applied.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia

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