0 to burn the surface of something with sudden very strong heat: --
1 to burn the surface of something with very high heat, or to cook meat quickly at a high temperature to keep in the juices and flavor: --
A typical group of parasynonyms contains: sweltering and breathless; parched; burning; searing and sear; scorching, scorched, and scorcher;, and roasting, roaster.
The impact with the trees threw the plane out of control, and it seared a strip through the thin woods a quarter-mile long.
Chicken parts, dusted with salt and pepper, are seared in the oil for three to four minutes on each side.
In the intense heat his skin would be seared and his body would become inert.
Within a trigger group, any number of sears may exist.
First, the meat is seared in ghee and cooked in water with warm aromatic spices till tender.
Another preparation is "toriwasa" which is lightly seared on the outsides while the inside remains raw.
The damage done by the poll tax is now too well attested to and too deeply seared into the nation's collective experience to require much by way of elaboration.
