Usually means: Burn tissue to stop bleeding.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. cauterize: Merriam-Webster
  2. cauterize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cauterize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cauterize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cauterize: Vocabulary.com
  6. cauterize: Wordnik
  7. cauterize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cauterize: Wiktionary
  9. cauterize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cauterize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cauterize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cauterize: Dictionary.com
  13. cauterize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cauterize (album), Cauterize (band), Cauterize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cauterize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cauterize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cauterize: Rhymezone
  18. Cauterize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cauterize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cauterize: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cauterize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cauterize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cauterize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cauterize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cauterize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cauterize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. cauterize: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. cauterize: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cauterize: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  To burn and hence seal open tissue using a heated article or caustic agent so as to stop bleeding or minimise the risk of infection.

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