cauterising BrE
cauterizing AmE

And it honors the gorgeous fuss Hicks made in the world: his emerging standup skills, his struggles, and his cauterizing, even messianic mission to attack America's unrelenting refusal to think.

A typical surgeon, Dr Daruwalla liked to describe the procedure in exact detail - including the cauterizing of the wound with hot oil, and not forgetting that part of the female anatomy which the puckered scar resembled when it healed.