Definitions for cauterize

cauterize cau·ter·ize

Spelling: [kaw-tuh-rahyz]
IPA: /ˈkɔ təˌraɪz/

Cauterize is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in cauterize (aceeirtuz).

Definitions for cauterize

verb (used with object)

  1. to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.

Origin of cauterize

1350-1400; Middle English Late Latin cautērizāre to brand, equivalent to cautēr- (Greek kautḗr branding iron, equivalent to kau-, variant stem of kaíein to burn (cf. c

Examples for cauterize

Well, I offered to cauterize it with the poker in the office stove.

"Any woman who has a conscience like that ought to cauterize it—with a curling-iron—and get rid of it," he observed dryly.

Gerard coloured a little, and told him the learned doctor was going to flebotomize him and cauterize him; that was all.

Besides this, they also bleed the patient and cauterize the wound.

Take care, he says, not to cauterize the nerves in the neighborhood, for this will add a new ailment to the patient's affection.

Gerard coloured a little and told him the learned doctor was going to flebotomize him and cauterize him; that was all.

He can take nothing away, but only cauterize and neutralize, he says, so why not let him try?

If a surgeon is at hand he would probably cut out the injured portion, or cauterize it thoroughly.

He knew his danger and deliberately fired, hoping to cauterize the wound and drive out the poison.

I had no caustic with me, so I determined to cauterize it with boiling grease.

Word Value for cauterize
Scrable

20

Words with friends

22

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