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say it: sird
seared is an adjective meaning "having the surface burned quickly with intense heat". It carries one recorded sense.
having the surface burned quickly with intense heat
“the seared meat is then covered with hot liquid for braising”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for seared come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.