Definition of searing
1 : very hot
2 : marked by extreme intensity, harshness, or emotional power searing pain a searing review a searing portrayal
searingly
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Examples of searing in a Sentence
the searing heat of the fire
She felt a searing pain in her foot.
She made a searing attack on her political enemies.
Recent Examples of searing from the Web
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The October shooting of Deborah Danner became a searing illustration of the argument for the training, which so far has reached about 5,800 of the department’s 35,000 officers.
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And the searing, soaring five-story museum fills the gaps in our country’s complicated story that too many of us have forgotten, sanitized or simply never knew.
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Its heat shield, the toughest ever designed, will safeguard the probe against searing 2,500 F temperatures.
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Consider for a moment what is at stake with climate change: rising seas, flooded coastal cities, mass extinction, searing drought, human displacement, migration crises, deadlier heatwaves, crop failures, stronger storms.
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The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun.
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First Known Use of searing
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SEARING Defined for English Language Learners
searing
playDefinition of searing for English Language Learners
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: very hot
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: extremely intense, severe, etc.
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of writing or speech : very strong and critical
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