cauterize

Example Sentences

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If any bleeding occurs during the polyp removal, doctors can cauterize the wound to seal it, but this method creates a scar that may delay the healing, and result in additional complications.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2024

"And then when things really come to a head, they try to cauterize the wound at the lowest level possible."

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2023

And no, the sheer repetitiveness of what is by now a well known pattern of conduct within the church should not cauterize the outrage nor inure lawmakers to the urgency of action.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2021

Such a principled response can also pragmatically cauterize the White House from subsequent factual revelations.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2018

Privately, in another desperate attempt to cauterize the Watergate wound before it spread all the way to the president, Nixon had pressured his two closest aides to step down.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin