MEANING
To destroy or seal tissue using heat, chemicals, or a comparable controlled process.
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Words that belong together
- cauterize a wound
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The surgeon cauterized the bleeding tissue.
They cauterized the wound under controlled conditions.
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Word forms
- Base
- cauterize
- Past tense
- cauterized
- Past participle
- cauterized
- Present participle
- cauterizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- cauterize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are cauterizing
- Present perfect
- have/has cauterized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been cauterizing
- Past
- cauterized
- Past continuous
- was/were cauterizing
- Past perfect
- had cauterized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been cauterizing
- Future
- will cauterize
- Future continuous
- will be cauterizing
- Future perfect
- will have cauterized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been cauterizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: cauterize; cauterizes; cauterized; cauterized; cauterizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: cauterizes.
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