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sear

1  [seer]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to burn or char the surface of: She seared the steak to seal in the juices.
2. to mark with a branding iron.
3. to burn or scorch injuriously or painfully: He seared his hand on a hot steam pipe.
4. to make callous or unfeeling; harden: The hardship of her youth has seared her emotionally.
5. to dry up or wither; parch.
–verb (used without object)
6. to become dry or withered, as vegetation.
–noun
7. a mark or scar made by searing.
–adjective
8. sere 1 .
Origin:
bef. 900; (adj.) ME sere, OE sēar; c. D zoor; (v.) ME seren, OE sēarian, deriv. of sēar

Synonyms:
1. See burn 1 .
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sere

1  [seer]
–adjective
dry; withered.
Also, sear.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME seer(e), OE sēar; see sear 1

Synonyms:
arid, parched, desiccated, wizened.
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Word Origin & History

sear  (v.)
O.E. searian "dry up, to whither," from P.Gmc. *saurajan, from root of sear "dried up, withered" (see sere). Meaning "to brand, to burn by hot iron" is recorded from 1530; fig. use is from 1582.

sere 
O.E. sear "dried up, withered," from P.Gmc. *sauzas (cf. M.L.G. sor, Du. zoor), from PIE base *saus- (cf. Skt. susyati "dries, withers;" O.Pers. uška- "dry" (adj.), "land" (n.); Avestan huška- "dry;" L. sudus "dry"). A good word now relegated to bad poetry. Related to sear. Sere month was an old name for "August."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Science Dictionary
sere   (sîr)  Pronunciation Key 
The entire sequence of ecological communities successively occupying an area from the initial stage to the climax community. See more at succession.
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Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.
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