0 past simple and past participle of sear --
1 to burn the surface of something with sudden very strong heat: --
Those at the seaside have nature at their very doors, but we have the face of nature seared and scarred by the inexorable march of industrialism.
Each swelling the gains of some middleman whose heart is seared by the recollection of his own poverty, and who learns to grind as he was once ground by others.
Their souls are seared and soured by the state of society in which they live.
Presumably the gas experience has seared him for ever.
So all my life—the life, in fact, of every man or woman under 50 in this country—has been seared with cuts.
But look- ing back at it must our consciences be seared?
I suspect that that experience is seared on his ministerial memory.
The risks are a warmer, flooded earth or a world seared by the sun.
