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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Withered; dry: sere vegetation at the edge of the desert.
  2. n. The entire sequence of ecological communities successively occupying an area from the initial stage to the climax.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. See sear.
  2. Separate; several; many.
  3. Safe; secure.
  4. n. A claw or talon.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Without moisture.
  2. n. An intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community.
  3. n. obsolete claw; talon

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Dry; withered. Same as sear.
  2. n. obsolete Claw; talon.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture

Etymologies

  1. French serre (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English sēar.From series. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “It was inflicted, and endured, by those members of the Special Forces who underwent the advanced form of training known as sere (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape).”

    Believe Me, It's Torture

  • “Some derived from personal training experiences, including a military program known as sere (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape), designed to help soldiers persevere in the event of capture.”

    The Green Light

  • “Both worked in a classified military training program known as sere — for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape — which trains soldiers to endure captivity in enemy hands.”

    Rorschach and Awe

  • “Many people assume that Special Forces operatives looked around for interrogation methods, recalled their sere training, and decided to try the techniques.”

    Rorschach and Awe

  • “Though they were all in what Dr. Spinks afterwards termed the sere and yellow leaf, both he and the good captain really vied with each other in paying kindly attention to their wants.”

    Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure

  • “He used it three and a half times in the book, annoying me at least as much as Andre Norton's use of 'sere' in every one of her books.”

    In Which I Survive the Baton Death March

  • “Yes, sir, I'm a-looking, and there's a heap o 'sere' ood with a bit of”

    Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story

  • “He had signed on, drawn down his bank account, paid his first wife a lump sum to cover her maintenance and child support for the twins, married the love of his soul on a sere, scorched afternoon three weeks ago, and put the finishing touches on his yurt.”

    The Silence

  • “We picked up speed and hauled through sere yellow farmland.”

    The 12:39 to Matanzas

  • “Non posso transport the meno di montare ogni mio movie tutte le sere.”

    Archive 2009-11-01

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. dry
  1. claw
  1. talon
  1. withered
  1. seral community

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘sere’

  1. dry

same context (18)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. scusa
  2. publico
  3. scrubby
  1. beech
  2. dewy
  3. wide-spreading
  1. wither
  2. greening
  3. prickly
  1. sapless
  2. leafless
  3. linden
  1. straggly
  2. rock-strewn
  3. kyn
  1. dandelion
  2. wind-tossed
  3. wind-swept

rhymes (115)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bombardier
  2. Chevalier
  3. Clear
  4. Deere
  5. Fear
  6. Greer
  7. Imagineer
  8. Lanier
  9. Lear
  10. Meir
  11. Mir
  12. Rainier
  13. Revere
  14. Sabir
  15. Sameer
  16. Samir
  17. Shamir
  18. Speer
  19. Zaire
  20. adhere
  21. amir
  22. appear
  23. auctioneer
  1. austere
  2. bandolier
  3. beer
  4. belvedere
  5. bere
  6. bioengineer
  7. bombardier
  8. brigadier
  9. budgeteer
  10. career
  11. cashier
  12. cavalier
  13. chandelier
  14. cheer
  15. chevalier
  16. clear
  17. cohere
  18. commandeer
  19. conventioneer
  20. dear
  21. deer
  22. deere
  23. disappear
  1. domineer
  2. ear
  3. electioneer
  4. emir
  5. engineer
  6. fear
  7. fier
  8. financier
  9. fleer
  10. frontier
  11. gear
  12. geer
  13. gere
  14. gondolier
  15. insincere
  16. interfere
  17. jeer
  18. kier
  19. kir
  20. lanier
  21. lear
  22. marketeer
  23. mear
  1. mere
  2. mir
  3. mutineer
  4. near
  5. neer
  6. pamphleteer
  7. peer
  8. persevere
  9. pier
  10. pioneer
  11. premier
  12. premiere
  13. profiteer
  14. queer
  15. racketeer
  16. rainier
  17. reappear
  18. rear
  19. reengineer
  20. revere
  21. sabir
  22. sear
  23. severe
  1. shear
  2. sheer
  3. shere
  4. sincere
  5. smear
  6. sneer
  7. souvenir
  8. spear
  9. speir
  10. sphere
  11. steer
  12. summiteer
  13. tear
  14. teer
  15. unclear
  16. veer
  17. veneer
  18. volunteer
  19. wazir
  20. wier
  21. year
  22. zahir
  23. zaire

reverse dictionary (7)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. seer
  1. seir
  1. sear
  1. mesarch
  1. xerarch
  1. sere
  1. seral

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  • yarb As verb, variant of sear:

    What was cupped in palm and thumb
    seres now under radium.

    - Peter Reading, C, 1984 Jul 23, 2008

  • rolig The skies they were ashen and sober;
         The leaves they were crispéd and sere –
         The leaves they were withering and sere:
    It was night, in the lonesome October
         Of my most immemorial year . . .

    "Ululume – A Ballad," by E. A. Poe Dec 7, 2007

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