Sekirov Dictionary

sear

UK /sɪə̯(ɹ)/US /sɪɹ/

verb 4
adjective 1
noun 2
forms 8

verb4

•
To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.
- He likes to sear his steaks while maintaining rareness at the center.
•
(figurative) To mark permanently, as if by burning.
- The events of that day were seared into her memory.
•
To wither; to dry up.
- The spring and summer of 1936 brought to the Great Plains one of those terrible periodic droughts that sear the crops and convert the “short-grass country” into a desert. — 1971
(figurative) To make callous or insensible.

adjective1

•
Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
- The autumn winds rushing / Waft the leaves that are searest, / But our flower was in flushing, / When blighting was nearest. — 1810

noun2

Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.
A scar produced by searing

forms

seared · searing · seareth · sears · more sear · searer · most sear · searest

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