How to Use cauterize in a Sentence
cauterize
verb- The doctors cauterized the wound.
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Take damage, light a cigar and use it to cauterize the wound.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
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Most of the wounds had been cauterized, so there wasn't much bleeding.
—Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2017
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The past could never quite be shirked, and the future that would cauterize the insults of that past could never get quite close enough.
—Will Blythe, Esquire, 1 Apr. 2010
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First, the brain is mostly freed from the skull; all the dangling arteries, save the carotids, are cauterized or sutured.
—Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 2 July 2019
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Elist cauterized more tissue by the pubic bone to make sure the implant would fit there, and at this the patient’s breaths rose into a moan.
—Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023
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Somebody suggested that we deep-fry the finger, to cauterize the wound.
—Jeff Winkler, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2020
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Where life wounds, art and fellowship can heal, or at the very least, cauterize into the most expressive of scars.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
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Where life wounds, art and fellowship can heal, or at the very least, cauterize into the most expressive of scars.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
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In a doctor's office: Warts can be cauterized, which is the medical term for burning off the tissue.
—Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 10 Apr. 2017
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These weren’t just open cuts but gaping, bleeding, raw wounds that a single one-day protest was never going to cauterize.
—Hannah Seligson, Marie Claire, 17 Jan. 2020
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The conventional wisdom of the time held that bullet wounds should be cauterized with boiling oil.
—John J. Ross, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2020
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Then, to business: cut, suture, cut, suture, cauterize, cut.
—Joshua Lang, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
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Her eye injuries were cauterized to seal them, and she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
—Mike Ellis, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018
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In one gruesome case, surgeons cauterizing a man’s colon ended up igniting a pocket of gas, blowing a six-inch hole in his abdomen.
—Sam Kean, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
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This process involved minute tugs and tears, punctuated by pauses to cauterize minor bleeds.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2016
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To cauterize the bleeding, the Chinese government is likely to force a restructuring.
—Anne Stevenson-Yang, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
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Meanwhile, the screens that have cauterized us are now our primary means of communication.
—Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2020
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The doctors drained out the amniotic fluid and pumped in carbon dioxide to keep the uterus expanded, giving them room to work and allowing them to see better and cauterize when needed.
—Denise Grady, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2017
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Surgical ablation can help, but cauterizing healthy heart cells should be done with caution.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
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A vasectomy requires cutting and either tiying off or cauterizing the vas deferens, the tube that carries sperm from the testicles to the penis.
—Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2017
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Park credited Samsung Electronics managers for quickly cauterizing the wound left by the Galaxy Note 7.
—Jeyup S. Kwaak, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2017
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Lovullo said McKay underwent a procedure to cauterize the spleen but is now resting comfortably.
—Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2021
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Hauser hit a momentum-shifting 3-pointer, and A.J. Hoggard followed with a driving layup in transition to cauterize the Spartans’ bleeding.
—Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2022
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The remedy, accordingly, has been to restrict the production and distribution of narcotics: Smash the cartels, cauterize the trafficking routes, arrest the dealers.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Wired, 15 Jan. 2020
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Davis is currently at the team’s complex in Mesa, Ariz., building up after undergoing back surgery June 2 to cauterize a vascular malformation.
—Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2022
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In any regard, the administration could help cauterize the damage by being honest, transparent and assisting those looking into the matter.
—John Sipher, Slate Magazine, 11 Sep. 2017
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The women, who were allegedly forced to give up collateral in the form of nude photographs and family secrets to join the group, were branded by a cauterizing pen with a logo containing Raniere's initials, according to prosecutors.
—Jon Campbell, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2018
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Leaders must immediately cauterize the wound, cutting products and people.
—Kash Shaikh, Forbes, 25 May 2021
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Nothing kick-starts donations like Christ’s wounds manifest, but it’s an inconceivably painful ruse to maintain (and eventually, sickeningly, to cauterize).
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
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