0 past simple and past participle of sear
1 to burn the surface of something with sudden very strong heat:
A self-taught artist, who worked in a colliery for only a short period, his experiences there were seared indelibly on his memory.
When he at last looked away from her, she felt as though she had been seared to the soul by the scathing dismissal in his eyes.19 20.
It is seared into the memory not just of his family but of the public as a whole.
That experience of mine in another place is seared into my soul.
But perhaps most heart-rending of all are the tiny faces and bodies scorched and seared by fire.
A wound seared by a hot iron may heal again, but a wound burned in by the tongue seldom heals.
Is it not a fact that submarines have always been under exactly the same obligations as regards visit and seared as all surface vessels?
The risks are a warmer, flooded earth or a world seared by the sun.
