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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
- 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
- Could be a missed blood vessel that wasn't cauterized," the doctor says.Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
- Because they left their initials burned into the cauterized synapses.Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 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
cauterized = a wound having been burned or seared to stop bleeding and prevent infection
(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.)