1. Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
   "The surgeon cauterized the wart"
   - cauterise [Brit], burn 
2. Make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
   - callous, cauterise [Brit]

Derived forms: cauterizing, cauterized, cauterizes

See also: cauterant, cauterization

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

Encyclopedia: Cauterize

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