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sear

(v): make very hot and dry

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(v): make hot or hotter

(v): become superficially burned

(v): undergo combustion

(v): burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color

(v): burn with heat, fire, or radiation

(v): cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat

(v): remove the moisture from and make dry

(adj): (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture

(adj): vs. wet) -- (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet

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3 days ago yarb said:

The California summer lay blanket-wise and smothering over all the land. The hills, bone-dry, were browned and parched. The grasses and wild-oats, sear and yellow, snapped like glass filaments under foot.

- Frank Norris, The Octopus, bk 2, ch. 5

3 months ago chained_bear said:

Also part of a Mauser 98 (rifle):
"But most experienced snipers filed the two steel pimples that acted as levers on the rifle's sear in order to quicken its action and minimize the barrel's movement during firing."
--David Macfarlane, The Danger Tree, 268

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