sear
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Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
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Etymology 1
From Middle English sere, seer, seere, from Old English sēar, sīere (“dry, sere, sear, withered, barren”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ews- (“dry, parched”) (also reconstructed as *h₂sews-). Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry, rough”), Low German soor (“dry”), German sohr (“parched, dried up”), dialectal Norwegian søyr (“the desiccation and death of a tree”), Lithuanian saũsas (“dry”), Homeric Ancient Greek αὖος (aûos, “dry”). Doublet of sere and sare.
Adjective
sear (comparative searer or more sear, superlative searest or most sear)
Etymology 2
From Middle English seren, seeren, from Old English sēarian (“to become sere, to grow sear, wither, pine away”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzōną, *sauzijaną (“to become dry”). Related to Old High German sōrēn (“to wither, wilt”). See Etymology 1 for more cognates. The use in firearms terminology may relate to French serrer (“to grip”).
Verb
sear (third-person singular simple present sears, present participle searing, simple past and past participle seared)
- (transitive) To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.
- To wither; to dry up.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (transitive, figurative) To make callous or insensible.
- (transitive, figurative) To mark permanently, as if by burning.
- The events of that day were seared into her memory.
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Noun
sear (plural sears)
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sear
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West Frisian
Adjective
sear
Inflection
Inflection of sear | ||||
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uninflected | sear | |||
inflected | seare | |||
comparative | searder | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | sear | searder | it searst it searste | |
indefinite | c. sing. | seare | seardere | searste |
n. sing. | sear | searder | searste | |
plural | seare | seardere | searste | |
definite | seare | seardere | searste | |
partitive | sears | searders | — |
Further reading
- “sear (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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