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What does cauterize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cauterize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (chiefly US spelling) To burn, sear, or freeze tissue using a hot iron, electric current or a caustic agent.
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Take care, he says, not to cauterize the nerves in the neighborhood, for this will add a new ailment to the patient's affection.
Before the emergence of technologies of light for depilation, the doctors used electrical energy to cauterize the feeder vessels.
Love as a searing iron to cauterize our souls' uncleanness, and as a fire to kindle with divine flames the wretched tinder of our hearts.
Where did they find the instruments needed to cauterize wounds?
He can take nothing away, but only cauterize and neutralize, he says, so why not let him try?
I had no caustic with me, so I determined to cauterize it with boiling grease.

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