SEARED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seared mean? 

• SEARED (adjective)
  The adjective SEARED has 1 sense:

1. having the surface burned quickly with intense heat

  Familiarity information: SEARED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEARED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the surface burned quickly with intense heat

Context example:

the seared meat is then covered with hot liquid for braising

Similar:

cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)

 Context examples 

As he had placed the Wafer on Mina's forehead, it had seared it—had burned into the flesh as though it had been a piece of white-hot metal.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful time is seared into my memory.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"My seared vision! My crippled strength!" he murmured regretfully.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It seemed to the young Englishman that he had never seen so hideous a face, for the eyes were of the lightest green, the nose was broken and driven inwards, while the whole countenance was seared and puckered with wounds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A large face, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)