cauterize

Verb
  1. Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent (synset 200374419)
    "The surgeon cauterized the wart"
    entail: scorch, sear - make very hot and dry
    is a type of:
    • care for, treat - provide treatment for
    • burn - damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation
    same as: burn, cauterise
  2. Make insensitive or callous;
    Deaden feelings or morals (synset 200273913)
    is a type of: harden, indurate, inure - cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
    same as: callous, cauterise

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