'At least the lawyer didn't cauterise your sense of humour.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff] Reference

If you fear you are contaminated, it is your responsibility to amputate and cauterise before the infection spreads.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away]

There has never been a stronger case for firm and united action by the governments of both India and Pakistan to cauterise the cancer in their midst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shashi Tharoor: Keep up the spirit to fight] Reference

The object of this was to cauterise the wound, a method that has been used with success in the outskirts of the world where poisonous reptiles abound and where proper antidotes cannot be had.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference

A Dutch inventor proposes replacing the traditional dental drill with a ‘plasma needle’, a device that despite being cold and painless to the touch will kill dead cells and cauterise the surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plasma Dentistry | Blog | Futurismic] Reference

When their children are iiii. yeare olde they vse to cauterise them on the coron22 vaine (and some on the temple also) with a medecine for that purpose, made of woolle as it is plucked fro the shiepe: because thie should not at any time be troubled with rheumes or poses,23 and by that meanes they say they liue in very good health.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie] Reference

Does not the surgeon also cauterise and cut us for our good?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anabasis] Reference

This might cauterise the blood loss, but what about paying down the debts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum] Reference

Finsac - the Financial Sector Adjustment Company - was set up to cauterise the meltdown and take over the failed institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [JamaicaObserver.com | Lead Stories] Reference

Surgeons operating robotic tools with joysticks could use the system to cauterise a wound while they hold it open, for example.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

Eventually the city is hoping to cauterise the problem by building new residential halls well away from the temptations of the centre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

The tumbler, you know of course, is to be used as a cup, and when using it you must be careful not to cauterise the points of your fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia] Reference

Having had the blood staunched, he aimed to cauterise Murray and there were signs towards the end of the set that the real Del Potro was beginning to stand up, all 6ft 6in of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

You doctors do not cauterise a sick man, or make him suffer pain in some other way, because you like it; but you often adopt this treatment in obedience to the necessity of the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

Lasers have been used in medicine for decades, and depending on the wavelength, energy level and treatment time, can be used to cut, cauterise, destroy tissue and control pain by altering cellular function.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

Thus men cut off their own nails, hair, or corns; they allow surgeons to cut and cauterise them, not without pains and aches, and are so grateful to the doctor for his services that they further give him a fee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memorabilia] Reference

But the bark was also a characteristic: being exceedingly tenacious, and moreover of a strongly acrid taste -- so much so as to cauterise he skin of Ossaroo's mouth, who had been foolish enough to chew it too freely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"] Reference

The probe may require to be reapplied once or twice at intervals of two or three days, and in certain rare cases it may be necessary as a last resource freely to cauterise the inside of the cyst with the solid nitrate of silver.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

On Monday, they put leeches to my temples, no difficult matter, but the blood could not be stopped till eleven at night (they had gone too near the temporal artery for my temporal safety), and neither styptic nor caustic would cauterise the orifice till after a hundred attempts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference

If the role of the 1945 Labour government was, in the words of historian Peter Hennessy, to "cauterise, finally, the wounds of the industrial revolution," the task facing Britain's leaders today is nothing less than beginning to bind the wounds of the post-industrial revolution.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

ATI's recent launch of graphics cards has definitely been an impressive one - in only a few months, the company's managed to flood the market with its DX11-capable 5xxx series cards, that range from performance that could cauterise wounds, to an affably affordable series of cheaper cards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atomic] Reference

Without circumlocution or reserve, he spoke of the officers concerned in convict management as blinded by habit -- as empirics who could patch and cauterise a wound, but were involved in the hopeless prejudices of a topical practice, and much too far gone to comprehend improvements founded on scientific principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Tasmania , Volume II] Reference

If this doesn’t cauterise the wound, then the moves will start.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Arendse further denied speculation that Mbeki had established the commission merely to "cauterise the wounds of the African.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"negative" thinking is a result of the "Turnbull culture" and are determined to cauterise it so that a new "positive" culture can be grown in its place.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

'You can sear and cauterise your guts.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shattered]

"They used a sort of laser to cauterise the source of the problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soccer Blogs - latest posts] Reference

Local anaesthetic, twonk it off and cauterise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference