1. burning or searing tissue with a hot instrument or chemical substance, typically to stop bleeding or destroy infected material
Usage: medical/surgical context; present participle of 'cauterize'
2. destroying or removing something harmful or undesirable, as if by burning
Usage: figurative use

Examples

• The surgeon was cauterizing the wound to prevent excessive bleeding.
• The doctor used a laser for cauterizing the affected tissue.
• Cauterizing the infection helped stop its spread.
• The procedure involved cauterizing small blood vessels.
• They discussed cauterizing the problem before it worsened.
• Medieval physicians practiced cauterizing wounds with hot irons.
• The treatment required cauterizing the damaged area of skin.