Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - sear
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Sear
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~1 v 1 I always + adv/prep, to burn something with a sudden powerful heat (The choking fumes seared their lungs) 2 to cook the outside of a piece of meat, quickly at a high temperature, in order to keep its juices in 3 to have a very strong sudden and unpleasant effect on you + into/onto/on (The scene will be forever seared onto my memory.) ~2 adj literary another spelling of sere
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(sears, searing, seared) 1. To sear something means to burn its surface with a sudden intense heat. Grass fires have seared the land near the farming village of Basekhai. VERB: V n 2. If something sears a part of your body, it causes a painful burning feeling there. (LITERARY) I distinctly felt the heat start to sear my throat. VERB: V n 3. see also searing ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. variant of sere II. verb Etymology: Middle English seren, from Old English searian to become dry, from sear sere Date: before 12th century intransitive verb to cause withering or drying transitive verb 1. to make withered and dry ; parch 2. a. to burn, scorch, mark, or injure with or as if with sudden application of intense heat b. to cook the surface of quickly with intense heat ~ a steak III. noun Date: 1874 a mark or scar left by ~ing IV. noun Etymology: probably from Middle French serre grasp, from serrer to press, grasp, from Old French, from Late Latin serare to bolt, latch, from Latin sera bar for fastening a door Date: 1596 the catch that holds the hammer of a gun's lock at cock or half cock ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & adj. --v.tr. 1 a scorch, esp. with a hot iron; cauterize, brand. b (as searing adj.) scorching, burning (searing pain). 2 cause pain or great anguish to. 3 brown (meat) quickly at a high temperature so that it will retain its juices in cooking. 4 make (one's conscience, feelings, etc.) callous. 5 archaic blast, wither. --adj. (also sere) literary (esp. of a plant etc.) withered, dried up. Etymology: OE sear (adj.), searian (v.), f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. воен. спусковой рычаг, шептало 2. сухой, увядший 3. книж. сушить, иссушать a countenance seared by grief and weeping —- лицо, поблекшее от горя и слез 4. сохнуть, увядать 5. прижигать to sear a wound with a hot iron —- прижигать рану раскаленным железом 6. обжигать, жечь his heart was seared with anger —- в его сердце пылал гнев his memory is seared by the event, the event is seared into his memory —- это событие оставило неизгладимый след в его памяти 7. ожесточать his soul haas been seared by injustice —- несправедливость ожесточила его 8. уст. сжигать, опалять ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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sc. fict. abbr. Superultramodern Ethical Aesthetical Relativism educ. abbr. Stop Everything And Read ...English abbreviation dictionary
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