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Definition
burn the surface with intense heat; or burn something unpleasant into memory
- Hot, searing pain spread through Bourne's right side.Chapter 9 (17% in)
- And there was heat, a strange moist heat at his temple that seared through the freezing water that kept swallowing him, a fire where no fire should burn.Chapter 1 (8% in)
- It was not imagined pain, not invented pain, but a sharp ache that penetrated his sockets and seared through his head.Chapter 11 (11% in)
- And with each crack, pain jolted him, bolts searing one after another through his head, his mind and body recoiling under the onslaught of the name.Chapter 17 (26% in)
- Her single scream was a searing, terrible cry of pain.Chapter 18 (69% in)
- He had not; he had removed them at the table when successive bolts of pain had seared through his head, brought on by words that told him of a past too familiar, too frightening to face.Chapter 24 (56% in)
- He stopped again, his eyes searing with pain at what he saw, knowing it was pointless to go on.Chapter 29 (58% in)
- Bourne felt the jolt in his chest, then a stinging, searing pain that drove through his temples to his eyes.Chapter 32 (76% in)
There are no more uses of "sear" in The Bourne Identity.
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