Sear: alternatives and connections

Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid o…

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Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid o…

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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Burnt; consumed.

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Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid o…

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A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…

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To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.

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To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.

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See Singe.

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To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as,…

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To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as,…

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To make or render black.

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Alt. of Charr

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To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.

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To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as,…

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[OE. seer, AS. sear (assumed) fr. searian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor/n to to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. /ush…

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of Shrivel

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of Shrivel

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To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.

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of Wither

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