seared
adjective C2- blackened by heat; scorched; burned
- having the surface cooked and crispened (particularly by cooking on a grill or pan) · I’m getting more of a seared bite on the Impossible Whopper than I’m getting on the actual Whopper.
From the library
“It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful time is seared into my memory.
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.
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