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Definition: Cauterize |
CauterizeVerb1. Burn or sear (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cauterize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Note: Cauterize \Cau"ter*ize\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Cauterized; present participle verb or noun Cauterizing.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: CauterizeSynonyms: burn (v), cauterise (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy, scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char, calcine, incinerate; smelt, scorify; reduce to ashes; burn to a cinder; commit to the flames, consign to the flames. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cauterize |
| English words defined with "cauterize": Cauterized, Cauterizing. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | During routine laparoscopy, the surgeon can cauterize small areas of endometriosis. (references) | |
A physician can also cauterize, or heat treat, a bleeding site and surrounding tissue with a heater probe or electrocoagulation device passed through the endoscope. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cauterize" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Cauterize" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cauterize | 51 |
beautiful cauterize something | 16 |
cauterize lyrics | 7 |
beautiful cauterize lyrics something | 5 |
cauterize music | 3 |
cauterize radio | 3 |
band cauterize | 2 |
cauterize r r | 2 |
cauterize nose | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cauterize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | djeg (bake, bite, burn, burn down, carbonate, carbonize, char, consume, cremate, grill, gut, incinerate, scald, set on fire, sting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كوى (burn, press, presser, sear), عالج بالكي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обгарям (bake, flame, scorch, sear), правя да стане нечувствителен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 灼 (brilliant), 燋 (scorch), 灸 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vypálit (brand, burn down, burn out, fire, fire off), kauterizovat (sear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | aetse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cauteriseren, cauterisatie, uitbranden (burn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سوزاندن (Blast, Burn, Fry, Incense, Incinerate, Scorch, Sear), داغ کردن (Brand, Singe), داغ زدن (Brand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | polttaa (burn, cremate, scald, scorch, smart, smoke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cautériser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ätzen (bite, burn, corrode, desensitize, erode, etch, etching, to cauterize, to corrode, to etch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καυτηριάζω (burn out, lash out against, sear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לצרוב (burn, cause heartburn, scald, scorch, sear, stain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | marat (to veer), kiéget (burn out, sear, to blight, to burn, to burn out, to cauterize, to sere). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menyelarkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cauterizzare (cauterise), causticare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | spoht-lostey (cauterization), daahjey (burn in, cauterization, char, scorch, singe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | auterizecay cauterizar (burn, burn in, etch, fire, sear). (various references) cauteriza (brand, burn, fire, sear), arde (bake, be on fire, bite, blister, burn, burn away, burn out, burn up, calcine, consume, cook, cremate, diddle, glare, glow, grill, heat, ignite, inflame, overdo, parch, roast, scald, scorch, sear, shrivel, smart, smoke, strike, tan, you are getting hot). (various references) клеймить (impress, stamp, stigmatize), прижечь, прижигать (sear), делать бессердечным. (various references) kauterizovati. (various references) cauterizar (burn, burn out, sear). (various references) bränna (anneal, bake, burn, burn(to), cremate, distil, fire, hit out, incinerate, parch, scorch, sear, singe, sting). (various references) ทำให้แผลไหม้"้วยความร้อนหรือสารเคมีเพื่อให้เลือ"หยุ"ไหลหรือป้องกันการติ"เชื้อ (cauterise). (various references) yakmak (bite, burn, fire, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, light, light up, put on, scathe, scorch, sear, set on fire, turn on), dağlamak (brand, sear, stigmatize). (various references) робити бездушним, таврувати (brand, burn, earmark, note, stigmatize), припікати (bake, sear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cauterize": cauterized, cauterizes. (additional references) | |
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"Cauterize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cartelize, cauterise, coterize, couterie, rasterize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "cauterize" (pronounced 'Cau"ter*ize'): Abolitionize, Acclimatize, Acetize, Achromatize, Actualize, Adonize, Adulterize, Adverbialize, Africanize, Agatize, Agnize, Agrarianize, Albumenize, Alchemize, Alcoholize, Algebraize, Alkalize, Allotropize, Alphabetize, Aluminize, Amalgamize, Americanize, Amortize, Anabaptize, Anachronize, Anaesthetize, Anagrammatize, Analogize, Anarchize, Anathematize, Anatomize, Angelize, Anglicize, Angurize, Animalize, Annalize, Anthropomorphize, Antipathize, Antiquarianize, Aphetize, Aphorize, Apostatize, Apothegmatize, Apotheosize, Appetize, Apprize, Archaize, Argumentize, Aromatize, Arterialize. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-r-t-u-z" | |
-2 letters: azurite, eucrite. | |
-3 letters: acuter, cerate, cerite, create, curate, curiae, curite, ecarte, recite, tierce, uratic, uretic. | |
-4 letters: acute, aerie, areic, arete, aurei, auric, azure, caret, carte, cater, ceria, citer, crate, craze, cruet, curet, curia, curie, cuter, cutie, eater, erect, erica, eruct, irate, razee, react, recta, recti, recut, retia, retie, terai, terce, trace, triac, trice. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-r-t-u-z" | |
+1 letter: cauterized, cauterizes. | |
+4 letters: bureaucratize, subcategorize. | |
+5 letters: bureaucratized, bureaucratizes, computerizable, conceptualizer, subcategorized, subcategorizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 75 74 65 72 69 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ..- - . .-. .. --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a u t e r i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0075 0074 0065 0072 0069 007A 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376787867184759271 |
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