Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cauterise

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English

Syllables: cau-terise
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of cauterize.

British usage

Example Sentences

"[…] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd.""
"Just when you think you are extricating yourself, just when you think you are cauterised and ready to leave, it resurfaces. Once you've been infected, you're never again completely free."

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

cauterises (present, singular) cauterising (participle, present) cauterised (participle, past) cauterised (past) cauterize (alternative, British)

Derived Forms

cauteriser electrocauterise recauterise uncauterised

Synonyms

callous cauterize burn

Questions

What does cauterise mean?: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of cauterize.

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