cauterize

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
- The surgeon cauterized the wart
• Syn:
cauterise, burn
• Derivationally related forms:
burn (for: burn), cauterisation (for: cauterise), cautery (for: cauterise), cauterization, cauterant, cautery
• Hypernyms:
treat, care for
• Entailment:
sear, scorch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. make insensitive or callous;
deaden feelings or morals
• Syn:
callous, cauterise
• Hypernyms:
inure, harden, indurate
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  callous, cauterise, burn