searing
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Synonyms & Antonyms for searing
Synonyms
ardent, boiling, broiling, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, piping hot, red, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, sultry, superheated, sweltering, torrid, ultrahot, white-hot
Antonyms
algid, arctic, bitter, bone-chilling, cold, freezing, frigid, frozen, glacial, ice-cold, iced, icy
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The searing official history produced by the U.S. Army points to many tantalizing what-ifs that might have produced better outcomes. — Hal Brands, National Review, "Lessons from the Iraq War," 20 June 2019 Depth of Field is his weekly dispatch about culture's most searing current images. — Jason Parham, WIRED, "Depth of Field: The Metaphor of Trump and the MAGA Hat," 20 June 2019 For families like hers, desperate hope and searing dread are always linked, inextricable in the possibility of finding someone. — Eric Ogden, Marie Claire, "The Invisible Victims," 10 June 2019 For the next 30 hours, Woodson would survive German snipers and his own searing pain to save scores of lives. — Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, "The Eyes of the World Are Upon Some Of Them: RaceAhead," 6 June 2019 With a searing alto tone that can flare from blue flame glow to bright orange grit within a phrase, Fuller has emerged as a formidable bandleader over the past decade, with four impressive albums on Mack Avenue Records. — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, "Beyonce sax player Tia Fuller lands in SF Bay Area for 3 shows," 5 June 2019 Even before a searing report put the job of Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin at risk, some White House staffers were pushing a health care agenda at odds with his. — Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, "Trump’s VA Firing Spree Falters in Court," 15 May 2019 Loyal critics proclaimed it a triumph—from its opening stately melody on the cellos, the searing funeral march, the frenetic, disorienting scherzo, through to the final reiteration of the heroic theme on the brass. — National Geographic, "How Beethoven went from Napoleon’s biggest fan to his worst critic," 24 Apr. 2019 On @pleasehatethesethings, designer Dina Holland chronicles the bad, the dated, and the ugly of interior design, skewering bizarre trends and unexplainable ornamentation with delightfully searing captions. — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, "Inside Every Interior Designer's Favorite Account on Instagram," 17 May 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'searing.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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