All 3 Uses of
sear
in
Lonesome Dove
- It had been midsummer and the plains looked seared, what grass there was, brown and brittle.†
Chpt 54-55 *
- The men's sweaty clothes were burned right off them, and their scraggly beards seared.†
Chpt 70-71
- 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.†
Chpt 101-102
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.