Sear

[Sear]

To sear something is to quickly cook or burn its surface by applying intense heat. When making beef stew, the color and flavor are usually better if you sear the meat first.

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To wither; to dry up.

Verb
cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun parched the earth"

Verb
make very hot and dry; "The heat scorched the countryside"

Verb
become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"

Adjective S.
(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines"

a.
Alt. of Sere

a.
To wither; to dry up.

a.
To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively.

n.
The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.

Sear

Sear, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seared ; p. pr. & vb. n. Searing.] [OE.seeren, AS. se'a0rian. See Sear, a.] 1. To wither; to dry up. Shak. 2. To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively.
I'm seared with burning steel.
It was in vain that the amiable divine tried to give salutary pain to that seared conscience.
The discipline of war, being a discipline in destruction of life, is a discipline in callousness. Whatever sympathies exist are seared.
&hand; Sear is allied to scorch in signification; but it is applied primarily to animal flesh, and has special reference to the effect of heat in marking the surface hard. Scorch is applied to flesh, cloth, or any other substance, and has no reference to the effect of hardness. To sear, to close by searing. "Cherish veins of good humor, and sear up those of ill." Sir W. Temple.

Sear

Sear, n. [F. serre a grasp, pressing, fr. L. sera. See Serry.] The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked. Sear spring, the spring which causes the sear to catch in the notches by which the hammer is held.

To wither; to dry up.

The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.

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Usage Examples

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

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