Definition of "cauterized" [cauterized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of cauterize. (verb)

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• "I have six pencil holes straight through me that are cauterized from the setting on the sniper†™ s gun."
• "Brennan's employee, Lt. Quarles Harris, "cauterized" Obama's passport files in April of 2008."
• "The umbilical cord was grasped and cauterized in three different locations across a 5-cm segment of the umbilical cord."