Synonyms for sere

Grammar : Adj

Spell : seer

Phonetic Transcription : sɪər

Définition of sere

Origin : Old English sear "dried up, withered, barren," from Proto-Germanic *sauzas (cf. Middle Low German sor, Dutch zoor), from PIE root *saus- "dry" (cf. Sanskrit susyati "dries, withers;" Old Persian uška- "dry" (adj.), "land" (n.); Avestan huška- "dry;" Latin sudus "dry"). A good word now relegated to bad poetry. Related to sear. Sere month was an old name for "August."

adj burned

Example sentences :

There is no sere and yellow leaf here—fruits and flowers are perennial.
Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou

The skies they were ashen and sober, and the leaves they were crisped and sere.
Extract from : « The Martian » by George Du Maurier

It was an old, old hunting-coat, far gone in the sere and yellow leaf.
Extract from : « The Singing Mouse Stories » by Emerson Hough

Many leaves were yet left on the boughs; but they were sere and withered.
Extract from : « My Novel, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The dead grass and the dead leaves made a sere, yellow world.
Extract from : « The Sleuth of St. James's Square » by Melville Davisson Post

He took to proverbs; sure sign of the sere leaf in a man's mind.
Extract from : « Beauchamp's Career, Complete » by George Meredith

The Padre met it with a dry, unsympathetic palm, as sere and yellow as the hills.
Extract from : « On the Frontier » by Bret Harte

But what becomes of days when they have fallen, sere and yellow?
Extract from : « Philosophic Nights In Paris » by Remy De Gourmont

He regarded himself as one already in the sere and yellow leaf.
Extract from : « The House 'Round the Corner » by Gordon Holmes

Then he rose and, with a face white and haggard as a sere cloth, turned to Brockford.
Extract from : « Long Live the King » by Guy Boothby

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