Definitions For Cauterize

verb

  • Make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
  • Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
  • To burn (something, such as a wound) with heat or a chemical substance in order to destroy infected tissue

Is Cauterize a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
20
Words with Friends
22

The word Cauterize is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Cauterize in a Sentence

  • The doctors cauterized the wound.
  • Time had cauterized his bitterness, and he was willing to let bygones be bygones

Synonyms for Cauterize

Antonyms for Cauterize

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