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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Scorched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences.

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

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  • adjective having the surface burned quickly with intense heat

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