adjective [usuallybeforenoun] (written)
1 so strong that it seems to burn you:
the searing heat of a tropical summer * He felt a searing pain in his neck.
2 (of words or speech) powerful and critical:
The article was a searing attack on the government.
searingly adverb-see also SEAR
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for searing is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does searing appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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