sear

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• Received-Pronunciation: /sɪə̯(ɹ)/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /sɪː(ɹ)/
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• Canada, General-American: /sɪɹ/
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• Australian: /sɪə̯(ɹ)/
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• New-Zealand: /siə̯(ɹ)/
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• rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
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• homophone: cere
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• homophone: seer
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• homophone: sere
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• CMU ARPABET: S IH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English sere, seer, seere, from Old English sēar, sīere (“dry, sere, sear, withered, barren”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀ(ī), 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”), Ukrainian сухий (suxyj, “dry”), Polish suchy (“dry”), Homeric Ancient Greek αὖος (aûos, “dry”). Doublet of sere and sare.

Variant of Sayer.

From Middle English seren, seeren, from Old English sēarian (“to become sere, to grow sear, wither, pine away”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀēn (“to dry out, become dry”); compare also Proto-Germanic *sauzijaną (“to make 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”).

Possibly from Old French serre (“claw, talon, grasp”)

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: spálenina — A scar produced by searing
• Czech: ožeh — A scar produced by searing
• Finnish: paloarpi — A scar produced by searing
• Finnish: palanut kohta — A scar produced by searing
• Finnish: kärventymä — A scar produced by searing
• Māori: kutiwera — A scar produced by searing
• Russian: ожо́г (ožóg) — A scar produced by searing
• Ottoman Turkish: داغ (dag, dağ) — A scar produced by searing
• Finnish: pidätin — Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled
• Finnish: virekynsi — Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled
• French: gâchette — Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled
• German: Abzugsstück — Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled
• German: Fangklinke — Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled
• Russian: шепта́ло (šeptálo) — Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled
• Spanish: fiador — Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled
• Swedish: spärr — Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled
• Swedish: spänntand — Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled
• Ukrainian: шептало (šeptalo) — Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled
• Arabic: لَفَحَ (lafaḥa) — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Bulgarian: обгарям (obgarjam) — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Catalan: socarrar — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Czech: sežehnout — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Czech: spálit — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Danish: brune — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Dutch: dichtschroeien — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Dutch: aanbraden — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Finnish: kärventää — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Finnish: korventaa — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Finnish: polttaa — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• French: saisir — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• French: griller — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• French: brûler — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• French: calciner — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• French: marquer — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• German: ausbrennen — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• German: versengen — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• German: scharf anbraten — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• German: ausdörren — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• German: verbrennen — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• German: austrocknen — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• German: einbrennen — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gatandjan) — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Italian: rosolare — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Italian: bruciacchiare — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Italian: fare passare al salto — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Māori: hūhunu — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Māori: hunuhunu — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Occitan: sasir — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Occitan: rimar — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Occitan: grasilhar — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Occitan: marcar — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Occitan: cremar — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Occitan: usclar — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Portuguese: queimar — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Portuguese: chamuscar — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Portuguese: tostar — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Russian: прижигать (prižigatʹ) — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Russian: обжигать (obžigatʹ) — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Spanish: chamuscar — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Spanish: socarrar — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Spanish: abrasar — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Swedish: sveda — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Swedish: bränna — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument
• Ottoman Turkish: داغلامق (dağlamak) — To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument