Definition of "seared" [seared]

• Simple past tense and past participle of sear. (verb)
• Blackened by heat; scorched;burned (adjective)

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• "A branded term seared in everyone's brain. eBiz is not."
• "Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared the Greek word used is kauteriazo, which means “cauterized, numbed, or dumbed down spiritually” as with a hot iron."
• "The four of them thought her a flake and the idea seared her with hot shame."