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burn the surface with intense heat; or burn something unpleasant into memory
- He knew then, and he was gripped by a pain as gritty and searing as the hot sand beneath his feet.p. 193.6
- And then suddenly the knowledge was hers, irrevocable, searing: all those years of silence, when he would not speak of their lost daughter, David had been keeping this record of her absence.p. 364.7
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