verb
1. burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
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The surgeon cauterized the wart
• Derivationally related forms: ↑burn (for: ↑burn), ↑cauterisation, ↑cautery, ↑cauterization (for: ↑cauterize), ↑cauterant (for: ↑cauterize), ↑cautery (for: ↑cauterize)
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
2. make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s somebody
Useful english dictionary. 2012.