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sear as in:  searing the meat

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  • She seared the steak.
    seared = scorched (browned the surface with intense heat)
  • We had seared tuna.
    seared = with the surface scorched (browned with intense heat)
  • I could not have articulated this, not as I sweated through those searing afternoons in the forklift.   (source)
    searing = burning hot
  • The sun's beating down, even more searing than the first two days.   (source)
  • Blue skies stood tall and far, the sun like a branding iron searing the back of your neck.   (source)
    searing = burning
  • The temperature was dropping quickly, from searing hot to chilly within a matter of minutes, like it always did in the desert at dusk.   (source)
    searing = burning hot
  • It would be another searing day.   (source)
  • The water seared his hands and arms. It was so cold it felt boiling hot, like lava.   (source)
    seared = burned
  • What could he say in a single word, a few words, that would sear all their faces and wake them up?   (source)
    sear = scorch (figuratively, to brown the surface with intense heat)
  • That summer was a scorcher, maybe the worst in all the years we'd lived in that valley desert, which our town would've been if the irrigation pumped in from the Sierra were turned off. I could tell how searing it was by the dragged-out way my mom's roses drooped every morning after I watered them.   (source)
    searing = burning hot
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  • The cicadas pierce the air with their searing one-note calls; dust eddies across the roads; from the weedy patches at the verges, grasshoppers whir.†   (source)
  • The dense, searing planetary core material gushed to the surface, and the oceans boiled over the lava.†   (source)
  • Returning my attention to the barbecue, I saw that the fat dripping off the sausages had ignited into flames again and was searing my chicken breasts.†   (source)
  • Seared for fifteen minutes at 450° and then roasted for two hours at 3500, her roast is tender and red at the center yet crispy and brown at the crust.†   (source)
  • Her response, more than anything I've ever heard, is seared in my memory.†   (source)
  • The carpet burst into flames; the heat was so intense, it nearly seared off my eyebrows.†   (source)
  • It was the first of three times that he would feel the searing heat of a bullet —enter his body.†   (source)
  • Eyes wide, I fling my right arm over my shoulder, forcing a searing pain through my body, and fire three times behind me.†   (source)
  • Only Babu was indifferent to the outburst and to the searing stare that bored into him like a drill.†   (source)
  • He lay there, bleeding and burning, his eyes shut against the searing heat, and for the first time in his life, he felt ready to die.†   (source)
  • The words hung there, searing themselves on the little room long after the sound had died away.†   (source)
  • The gun roared, and the curator felt a searing heat as the bullet lodged in his stomach.†   (source)
  • He knew he should run into the Maze and help, but the rule about not leaving the Glade was seared into his mind.†   (source)
  • For a few endless moments, Tally felt only relief to have escaped the searing wind, the thundering machine, the blistering heat of the firestorm.†   (source)
  • It was so cold he felt the skin on his legs searing as though this were fire, not icy water.†   (source)
  • When they were first married and Albert went away on trips for work, Jutta would wake in the predawn hours and remember those first nights after Werner left for Schulpforta and feel all over again the searing pain of his absence.†   (source)
  • As the searing flames surged and rolled higher along the sides of the shelter, his laughter grew hysterical.†   (source)
  • Because if I got trapped in a blaze started by arcing electrical overload in the wall of the garage, the searing pain of losing my mom and dad would go up in smoke with me.†   (source)
  • The judge banged his gavel, my face flushed hot, and my throat seared.†   (source)
  • She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain.†   (source)
  • For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory.†   (source)
  • Air screams back into my lungs, searing my throat and nose, but I don't care.†   (source)
  • From the verandah I saw the sun near the horizon, searing the ocean.†   (source)
  • One of the stray bullets scrapes me and searing pain shoots up my arm.†   (source)
  • The viscous oil clung to the skin and seared through the tissue.†   (source)
  • The arresting officer was named Donald Lima, and this name, Donald Lima, seared itself into her mind.†   (source)
  • To braise it, I'd first sear it in a frying pan and then slow roast it in liquid.†   (source)
  • But even that distance between herself and Pedro was not enough; she felt her blood pulsing, searing her veins.†   (source)
  • It crept up by slight degrees and spread sideways in a thin crescent blade, and within seconds two suns were visible, furnaces of light, searing the black edge of the horizon with white fire.†   (source)
  • He knew immediately that he was alive, because of the searing pain permeating every cubic centimetre of his body.†   (source)
  • Although I was numb from the cold, the pain seared through me each time, like being branded by a poker.†   (source)
  • At the next theater, ten or twelve blocks down, it was the same story: the CIA film had started, as had the well-reviewed biopic of a 1940s leading lady; the French cop movie didn't start for another hour and a half; and unless I wanted the psychopath film or the searing family drama, which I didn't, it was more brides and bachelor parties and Santa hats and Pixar.†   (source)
  • People burn trash by the rails, sending up more heat and a searing stench.†   (source)
  • That one word keeps scripting itself on my brain, as though it is being seared there.†   (source)
  • There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body.†   (source)
  • I woke screaming in the middle of the night, in agony, terrified as the scar seared itself into my flesh.†   (source)
  • It surprised him that, more than grief, he found a searing anger.†   (source)
  • I dog-eared it, wrote in it, copied whole passages so I wouldn't forget their texture, the passion, this searing work of a street dude and hype in Spanish Harlem — a barrio boy like me, on the other side of America.†   (source)
  • In response to the searing pain, he knocked over the stove and griddle and dropped the bowl of pancake batter onto the sandy ground.†   (source)
  • But it came—like a hot iron across my back, burning into me through my light shirt, searing my skin ... I screamed, convulsed.†   (source)
  • The thought of giving him up seared my soul.†   (source)
  • Where the iron touched his skin it felt like knives and needles and nails, like the searing pain of frost, like the sting of a hundred biting flies.†   (source)
  • The pain was searing, and I remember the dirt around me transforming into a blur of legs, then concerned faces, as two of our players, both EMTs, ran to my aid.†   (source)
  • Even through their closed lids, the twins could see the searing light that lit up the interior of the car.†   (source)
  • The fire in my face burned on and on, deep through my flesh, searing my soul.†   (source)
  • I could have fallen trembling on the ground but stood and watched instead, watched Kilanga's children shout and dance each time they found the scorched, angular bodies of a mother baboon and baby seared together.†   (source)
  • The hedge creatures were all in their original positions, but they were denuded, blackened, seared.†   (source)
  • Still, there was no denying the searing pain that was growing bigger every second.†   (source)
  • I couldn't hear or see or feel anything except that throbbing, searing fire centered in my eyes.†   (source)
  • A searing light hit my eyes.†   (source)
  • Pain shot up her arm, but it was nothing compared to the searing pain inside her chest.†   (source)
  • I was in the underpass and he was coming towards me, one slap across the mouth and then his fist raised, keys in his hand, searing pain as the serrated metal smashed down against my skull.†   (source)
  • The sound ricocheted off the bare rock face of the mountain and filled the air so that it seared from every direction.†   (source)
  • Esteban Trueba seared him with his fiercest look.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, if we had an element of doubt about the strength of the opposition behind that door, we would throw in a few flash-crashes, which do not explode and knock down walls or anything but do unleash a series of very loud, almost deafening bangs accompanied by searing white flashes.†   (source)
  • She was glad of the darkness so he could not see the searing blush that shook her all the way to the base of her skull.†   (source)
  • Whoever it was, we knew about it already: the Bay of Pigs, the seared skin, the bare-handed killers who'd do anything.†   (source)
  • The strong smell filled the room, and even I felt the searing liquid.†   (source)
  • I surfaced, splashing, my eyes seared with salt.†   (source)
  • I put the napkin in my pocket and I think of Ky writing out his story with his red hands, seared from the heat of the job he does.†   (source)
  • And then, with a searing shame, she realized: They thought she was stealing shirtwaists.†   (source)
  • Now the breeze that fingered her robes seared the patches of exposed skin at cheeks and forehead.†   (source)
  • His grip relaxes, and I roll away hard, actually hearing hair tear out of the front of my scalp, and I'm up and screaming down the block fast and loud, seconds before searing pain bursts into my left shoulder blade.†   (source)
  • His hands slid up my neck, searing hot.†   (source)
  • You cook the meat in animal fat over high heat to sear it, then add potatoes and vegetables and the rest.†   (source)
  • Every four or five steps I'd have to stop, lean against the rope, and suck desperately at the thin, bitter air, searing my lungs in the process.†   (source)
  • And then suddenly the knowledge was hers, irrevocable, searing: all those years of silence, when he would not speak of their lost daughter, David had been keeping this record of her absence.†   (source)
  • The pain was searing.†   (source)
  • He was sitting opposite her, eating his seared sword-fish meticulously without taking his eyes off her.†   (source)
  • When the ankle had twisted, the searing pain must have made him unconscious.†   (source)
  • A sudden, searing pain in my right leg.†   (source)
  • In the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan, five thousand women and girls have been doused in kerosene and set alight by family members or in-laws—or, perhaps worse, been seared with acid—for perceived disobedience just in the last nine years.†   (source)
  • But when she let me go, I made my final move—the one I'd planned since the white-hot familiar sensation had seared the skin on my back.†   (source)
  • When it's open, her fingers roam over my chest and shoulders, searing my skin.†   (source)
  • A searing tale of love, greed, and murder, set in the ruthless world of South American money launderers.†   (source)
  • There's no way he can describe to Berman his unfolding vision of dire warfare-the surrender in CS 22, the imminent rout in psychology, the searing issues that seem to envelop him in education-and how, studying maniacally over forty-eight hours, he felt like he was preparing for a titanic assault on his last stronghold.†   (source)
  • The click of the sear and the click of the cylinderhand falling into place were sharp and clear in the morning silence.†   (source)
  • It had been midsummer and the plains looked seared, what grass there was, brown and brittle.†   (source)
  • As Miro started after her, a searing pain shot through the calf of his left leg.†   (source)
  • And, beyond the frosty glass, beside the silver highway in the searing starlight, a tiny figure darting beneath the upraised arms of the trees.†   (source)
  • I smell seared beef, and my stomach twists from hunger.†   (source)
  • He attacked immediately and in searing fashion, calling Lord North the "blundering pilot" who had brought the nation to a terrible impasse.†   (source)
  • I whispered, jerking forward, struggling to make my eyes sear through the dark trunks and vines.†   (source)
  • A bolt of pain seared my heart.†   (source)
  • Yossarian played dead with his eyes shut while the clerk admitted him by shuffling some papers, and then he was rolled away slowly into a stuffy, dark room with searing spotlights overhead in which the cloying smell of formaldehyde and sweet alcohol was even stronger.†   (source)
  • Before undoing the bundles, my mother would light a tall new candle, which was a luxury, and the pie pans full of old wax and wicks that sometimes sputtered blue, a noise I thought was the germs getting seared.†   (source)
  • Jean-Luc asks as the waiter brings over my pan-seared pork medallions and his poached salmon.†   (source)
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sear as in:  a searing pain or memory

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  • The betrayal cut her deep, leaving a searing pain that lingered long after the words were spoken.
    searing = intense
  • The haunting melody of the violin was seared into her memory, echoing in her mind long after the concert ended.
    seared = burned (figuratively)
  • I remembered the searing pitch of my voice as I'd screamed at him.   (source)
    searing = intense
  • Discomfort turns to distress until each breath sends a searing pain through my chest.   (source)
  • Dimly, dazed by the searing pain in his arm, he slid sideways on his rain-drenched broom, one knee still crooked over it, his right arm dangling useless at his side—   (source)
  • He felt a searing sharp pain along his shoulder blades, the sudden warm flow of blood over his shirt.   (source)
  • ...the skunk had snapped its rear end up, curved the tail over, and sprayed Brian with a direct shot.... The corrosive spray that hit his face seared into his lungs and eyes, blinding him.   (source)
    seared = caused intense pain
  • I scrambled back onto the float, still seared by what he had said.   (source)
    seared = burned (figuratively)
  • But as warm blood drenched Harry's arms, he felt a searing pain just above his elbow.   (source)
    searing = intense
  • At once, a needle-sharp pain seared across Harry's scar; his head felt as though it was about to split in two;   (source)
    seared = burned intensely
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  • In a final gesture of frustration, the big hind leg lifted up and kicked the Land Cruiser over, and Grant felt searing pain and the surprising sensation of his own body flying through the air.   (source)
    searing = sudden and intense
  • As soon as he did, the branch bent down and the door swung wider, spilling him out of the Land Cruiser, and he fell-leaves scratching his face—his body bouncing from branch to branch—a jolt-searing pain, bright light in his head—   (source)
  • And then there was a new, searing pain, like a fiery knife in his belly, and Nedry stumbled, reaching blindly down to touch the ragged edge of his shirt, and then a thick, slippery mass that was surprisingly warm, and with horror he suddenly knew he was holding his own intestines in his hands.   (source)
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  • The Birch Path was a canopy of yellow and the ferns were sear and brown all along it.†   (source)
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