All 4 Uses of
sear
in
The Lost Hero
- For years afterward, people in the apartment complex would wonder how someone had seared the impressions of a five-year-old's hands an inch deep into solid wood.†
Chpt 11
- He liked his army jacket, and having his pants seared off would've been pretty embarrassing.†
Chpt 12 *
- Jason fell, light searing into his mind, and his last thought was that his body was burning.†
Chpt 50
- He could still see that blinding light—the true form of the goddess that had seared itself into his brain.†
Chpt 55
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.