sear

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /sɪə̯(ɹ)/    美 /sɪɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A scar produced by searing
  2. Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.
动词 v.
  1. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument. transitive
    — He likes to sear his steaks while maintaining rareness at the center.
  2. To wither; to dry up.
    — The drought was so severe as to sear the grass and the leaves of maple trees which had grown well for two years, standing in sward land by the roadside, and yet the corn, within ten feet, on the subsoiled land, did not roll once in the whole season, even at mid-day, and there was scarcely another piece in the neighborhood which escaped serious injury.
  3. To make callous or insensible. figuratively,transitive
  4. To mark permanently, as if by burning. figuratively,transitive
    — The events of that day were seared into her memory.
形容词 adj.
  1. Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
    — There are in all but three vvayes of going thither [to the moon]. […] [The] third, Old Empedocles vvay; vvho vvhen he leaped into Ætna, having a drie ſeare bodie, and light, the ſmoake took him and vvhift him up into the Moone, vvhere he lives yet vvaving up and dovvne like a feather, all foot and embers comming out of that cole-pit; our Poet met him, and talkt vvith him.

词形变化

searer comparative more sear comparative searest superlative most sear superlative sere alternative sare alternative sears present,singular,third-person searing participle,present seared participle,past seared past sere alternative sare alternative sears plural sere alternative sare alternative sears plural sere alternative sare alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
ensear redsear reverse-sear searwood

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sere, seer, seere, from Old English sēar, sīere (“dry, sere, sear, withered, barren”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ews- (“dry, parched”) (also reconstructed as *h₂sews-).
Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry, rough”), Low German soor (“dry”), German sohr (“parched, dried up”), dialectal Norwegian søyr (“the desiccation and death of a tree”), Lithuanian saũsas (“dry”), Ukrainian сухий (suxyj, “dry”), Polish suchy (“dry”), Homeric Ancient Greek αὖος (aûos, “dry”). Doublet of sere and sare.
词源 2
From Middle English seren, seeren, from Old English sēarian (“to become sere, to grow sear, wither, pine away”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀēn (“to dry out, become dry”); compare also Proto-Germanic *sauzijaną (“to make dry”). Related to Old High German sōrēn (“to wither, wilt”). See Etymology 1 for more cognates. The use in firearms terminology may relate to French serrer (“to grip”).
词源 3
Possibly from Old French serre (“claw, talon, grasp”)
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