sear

1. 1.

   (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”

   Synonymsdried-upsereshriveledshrivelledwithered

   Similardry

   vegetation

Other forms of sear

past tense

seared·

present participle

searing·

third person

sears·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sear

What does sear mean?

sear means "make very hot and dry". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sear?

sear has 1 syllable: sear. In IPA it is /ˈsɪɹ/.

What is another word for sear?

Close synonyms include scorch, scorch, singe, char, blacken. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sear a common word?

sear is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sear?

4 words rhyme with sear. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.