1. Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
   - cauterize, burn 
2. Make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
   - callous, cauterize

Derived forms: cauterises, cauterising, cauterised

See also: cauterisation [Brit], cautery

Type of: care for, enure, harden, indurate, inure, treat

Encyclopedia: Cauterise

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