Seared
[sɪəd]
Definition
(adj.) having the surface burned quickly with intense heat; 'the seared meat is then covered with hot liquid for braising' .
Checker: Wayne--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Sear
(a.) Scorched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences.
Edited by Barrett
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Cauterized, burnt on the surface.[2]. Hardened, callous, impenitent, unrepentant, obdurate, graceless, incorrigible, shameless, irreclaimable.
Typist: Murray
Examples
- I can't wait to-day, said Will, inwardly seared by the possibility that Mr. Casaubon would enter. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His brain was hurt, seared, the tissue was as if destroyed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My seared vision! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful time is seared into my memory. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a dreadful hour--an hour from which she emerged shrinking and seared, as though her lids had been scorched by its actual glare. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He felt his heart was seared, it would perish if this went on much longer. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Murray