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Synonyms for searing

Grammar : Adj
Spell : seer
Phonetic Transcription : sɪər

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Définition of searing

Origin :
  • Old English searian (intransitive) "dry up, to wither," from Proto-Germanic *saurajan (cf. Middle Dutch soor "dry," Old High German soren "become dry"), from root of sear "dried up, withered" (see sere). Meaning "cause to wither" is from early 15c. Meaning "to brand, to burn by hot iron" is recorded from c.1400, originally especially of cauterizing wounds; figurative use is from 1580s. Related: Seared; searing.
  • adj hot
Example sentences :
  • M. le Marquis raised his head, and showed a face that pain was searing.
  • Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The thought was hot in his heart as the searing touch of iron red from the fire.
  • Extract from : « The Princess Virginia » by C. N. Williamson
  • They had been baked by the searing heat, baked and charred almost to the ground.
  • Extract from : « The Gun » by Philip K. Dick
  • He had none of the mockery which is so searing and blighting a thing to hot youth.
  • Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan
  • They turned left, almost running in the teeth of that searing blast.
  • Extract from : « A World is Born » by Leigh Douglass Brackett
  • Or will he touch me with his searing hand, And leave a black memorial on the sand?
  • Extract from : « Endymion » by John Keats
  • There was a searing flash beside his head, the bite of fire on his cheek.
  • Extract from : « Ride Proud, Rebel! » by Andre Alice Norton
  • Like a fire it was burning in her, searing her brain and her soul day and night.
  • Extract from : « Woman » by William J. Robinson
  • I felt the conviction thrill through me like a searing iron.
  • Extract from : « The Disowned, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • In the midst of the searing heat it still moved with alien, jolting motions.
  • Extract from : « Deathworld » by Harry Harrison

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