All 8 Uses of
sear
in
The Bourne Identity
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- Hot, searing pain spread through Bourne's right side.†
Chpt 9 *
- It was not imagined pain, not invented pain, but a sharp ache that penetrated his sockets and seared through his head.†
Chpt 11
- 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.†
Chpt 17
- Her single scream was a searing, terrible cry of pain.†
Chpt 18
- 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.†
Chpt 24
- He stopped again, his eyes searing with pain at what he saw, knowing it was pointless to go on.†
Chpt 29
- Bourne felt the jolt in his chest, then a stinging, searing pain that drove through his temples to his eyes.†
Chpt 32
Definitions:
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(1)
(sear as in: searing the meat) to scorch or burn the surface of something; or to be very hot
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(2)
(sear as in: a searing pain or memory) intense (figuratively to burn into the mind)
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, sear can mean dry or refer to part of a gun.