- cauterize
[cauterize 词源字典]
- cauterize: see holocaust
[cauterize etymology, cauterize origin, 英语词源] - cauterize (v.)
- c. 1400, from Old French cauterisier, from Late Latin cauterizare "to burn or brand with a hot iron," from Greek kauteriazein, from kauter "burning or branding iron," from kaiein "to burn" (see caustic). Related: Cauterized; cauterizing.