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Adjective sear has 1 sense
- dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered - (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines"
Antonym: wet (indirect, via dry)
Verb sear has 3 senses
- sear, scorch - make very hot and dry; "The heat scorched the countryside"
--1 is one way to heat, heat up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- scorch, sear, singe - become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"
--2 is one way to burn, combust
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- parch, sear - cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun parched the earth"
--3 is one way to dry, dry out
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
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