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- noun Plural form of
searing .
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Examples
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He is a master of vacant intensities, of slick searings.
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Villages will arise again from their ruins, the plow shall turn anew the shell-pitted fields into green meadow-lands, a kindly nature will soon obliterate the scars upon the landscape, but not the deep searings on the soul.
In the Claws of the German Eagle Albert Rhys Williams 1922
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She was aware, too, that the Colonel knew as much, and his scientific pin-pricks and searings of that guileless and unprotected organ struck her as little short of cruel.
Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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