Cauterise

'At least the lawyer didn't cauterise your sense of humour.' ❋ Josh Spilker (2010)

They could cauterise the Earth with that beam weapon! ❋ Unknown (2009)

There has never been a stronger case for firm and united action by the governments of both India and Pakistan to cauterise the cancer in their midst. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is true I had read in John de Vigo, first book, Of Wounds in General, eighth chapter, that wounds made by firearms partake of venenosity, by reason of the powder; and for their cure he bids you cauterise them with oil of elders scalding hot, mixed with a little treacle. ❋ Julianne Douglas (2008)

Does not the surgeon also cauterise and cut us for our good? ❋ Unknown (2007)

I want the Cheney's and the Bush's to know, and I want the party-first-f*cking-flunkies to know, when they are right they have allies but when they are wrong they have enemies and they are not the only ones in the world willing to fight and to die and if necessary, reluctantly for the greater good of humanity, to kill and to cauterise a cancer. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Thus men cut off their own nails, hair, or corns; they allow surgeons to cut and cauterise them, not without pains and aches, and are so grateful to the doctor for his services that they further give him a fee. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A Dutch inventor proposes replacing the traditional dental drill with a ‘plasma needle’, a device that despite being cold and painless to the touch will kill dead cells and cauterise the surroundings. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Perhaps in order to cauterise doubt in a blaze of clarity, everything is catalogued: the minute the prisoner is injected with lethal medicine, the minute it starts to take effect, the minute they die. ❋ The Nag (2006)

When their children are iiii. yeare olde they vse to cauterise them on the coron22 vaine (and some on the temple also) with a medecine for that purpose, made of woolle as it is plucked fro the shiepe: because thie should not at any time be troubled with rheumes or poses,23 and by that meanes they say they liue in very good health. ❋ Unknown (2004)

If you fear you are contaminated, it is your responsibility to amputate and cauterise before the infection spreads. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)

But I hardly think this can be so, for it is extremely doubtful if a bullet ever gets hot enough to cauterise flesh. ❋ Ernest N. Bennett (N/A)

The object of this was to cauterise the wound, a method that has been used with success in the outskirts of the world where poisonous reptiles abound and where proper antidotes cannot be had. ❋ Algot Lange (N/A)

It is true I had read in John de Vigo, first book, Of Wounds in General, eighth chapter, that wounds made by firearms partake of venenosity, by reason of the powder; and for their cure he bids you cauterise them with oil of elder, scalding hot, mixed with a little treacle. ❋ Unknown (1909)

If they cure themselves, let ’em marry; let ’em breed; for then, if their children inherit the inclination, they also inherit the grit to cauterise the malady. ❋ Unknown (1899)

The [flesh] around the [wound] was cauterised to minimize [pain]. ❋ DeadlyD (2011)