cauterizar
Portuguese, verb/kaw.te.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
cauterizar is spelled C-A-U-T-E-R-I-Z-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese, the 164,273rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cauterizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cauterize (heal a wound by burning it)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does cauterizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cauterize (heal a wound by burning it)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of cauterizar
- cauterizo first-person present singular
- cauterizei first-person preterite singular
- cauterizado participle past
- cauterizares infinitive second-person singular
- cauterizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cauterizardes infinitive plural second-person
- cauterizarem infinitive plural third-person
- cauterizando gerund
- cauterizados masculine participle past
- cauterizada feminine participle past
- cauterizadas feminine participle past
- cauterizas indicative present second-person
- cauteriza indicative present singular
- cauterizamos first-person indicative plural
- cauterizais indicative plural present
- cauterizam indicative plural present
- cauterizava first-person imperfect indicative
- cauterizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cauterizar?
- Brazil /kaw.te.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kaʊ̯.te.ɾiˈza(h)]
- /kaw.te.ɾiˈza(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cauterizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cauterizar in Portuguese?
cauterizar appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).