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Definition
burn the surface with intense heat; or burn something unpleasant into memory
- It had been midsummer and the plains looked seared, what grass there was, brown and brittle.Chapters 54-55 (10% in)
- The men's sweaty clothes were burned right off them, and their scraggly beards seared.Chapters 70-71 (95% in)
- So Captain Call turned back down the rivers, cut by the quirt of Clara's contempt and seared with the burn of his own regret.Chapters 101-102 (39% in)
There are no more uses of "sear" in Lonesome Dove.
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