Geoffrey Canada

Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who really are against change. They're the kind of person who, if you tell them it's raining outside, they'll fight you tooth and nail.

American Activist

Emmanuel Macron

We can't fix the real problems if we only cauterize and don't treat the roots of evil.

French Politician

Used in medical situations where immediate action is needed to stop bleeding.

Medical Urgency

It highlights the preventative action to avoid infection following an injury.

Pre-infection Measure

Sometimes, it's used figuratively to describe a harsh, damaging response to a problem.

Not Always Literal

Used to describe someone becoming emotionally numb due to past experiences.

Figurative Numbness

Indicates the emotional state of being detached or indifferent due to specific events.

Emotional Detachment

Speaks to the use of cauterize as a metaphor for self-protective emotional measures.

Psychological Defense

 in some rough balance with the leaf mass to be happy. So when they lose a lot of leaf mass, they shed roots; they kind of cauterize them and the roots die. And the species in the soil go to work

Michael Pollan: A...

 Hercules fought fiercely, but every time he cut one head off, two more grew in its place. The battle was hopeless until his nephew Iolaus thought to cauterize the necks with fire,

Cauterize