Overview of verb sear

The verb sear has 4 senses

• sear, scorch -- (make very hot and dry; "The heat scorched the countryside")


• scorch, sear, singe -- (become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames")


• char, blacken, sear, scorch -- (burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling")


• parch, sear -- (cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun parched the earth")

Overview of adj sear

The adj sear has 1 sense

• dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered -- ((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")