Make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals.
1 Does not the surgeon also cauterise and cut us for our good?
2 The plans of the Collective to cauterise the ingress of militia had been stymied.
3 Someone needs to step up to the fore and cauterise the degradation before it's too late.
4 The mawkish inscriptions and epitaphs seek to cauterise the grief, to fix it for a while.
5 The young woman understood this, and she endeavoured to cauterise the bad place with the fire of her caresses.
6 To cauterise the track and so prevent bleeding, the needles should be slowly withdrawn while the current is flowing.
7 The aim: "to deflect attention away from Ukraine, a priority for PUTIN who needed to cauterise the subject".
8 But rather than moving swiftly to cauterise the bleeding economy its first move has been to install mechanisms to reduce oversight.
9 Image of war hero biting on a hankie, while best mate plunges live charcoal into the wound to cauterise it, he wrote.
10 Thirdly, the point of the radicle is so fine that it is difficult not to cauterise it either too much or too little.
11 A year had been enough to cauterise the wounds, but not the memories, memories that Julia had no intention of giving up anyway.
12 He can cauterise or cut out the cankered part, and yet preserve all that was not offensive to his sense of right and wrong.
13 We put the foot on the throat of ISIS and managed to cauterise the bloody wound they had slashed through the cradle of civilisation.
14 And it is this more than anything that demonstrates why Albo is so right to cut off and cauterise any extremist elements within the ALP.
15 His palate has been cauterised in an effort to ensure his clean-windedness.
16 And, as Jack had just remarked, the wound had been tidily cauterised .
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