searing

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searing

  1. very hot; blistering or boiling
    • 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Phase II units in service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 69:
      Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves [...].
  2. (of a pain) having a sensation of intense sudden heat
  3. (figuratively) unbearably intense or emotionally powerful
    • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
      O! yearning heart! I did inherit
      Thy withering portion with the fame,
      The searing glory which hath shone
      Amid the jewels of my throne,
      Halo of Hell!
  4. damning; critical; scathing

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Noun[edit]

searing (plural searings)

  1. action of the verb to sear
    • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
      he was raw with the searings of the fire
    • 1970 August, Ebony, volume 25, number 10, page 156:
      It was the time of new searings of black identity deep within the psyche of the black community.
  2. cooking food quickly at high temperature

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Verb[edit]

searing

  1. present participle and gerund of sear

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