单词 | seared |
释义 | searedadj. 1. Dried up, parched, withered. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up) > withered sere824 withered1488 seared1538 forwithered1563 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Ramale, a seryd or deed bowghe. 1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 48 Of freshe coolor..whiche hathe no sered nor withered cooloor in his leafes. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xiii. 687 Part [of the weapon] within his disk remain'd Like a seer'd stake. 1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 298 We reached the outskirts of the village, surrounded by rich pasture-lands and dense copses of thicket, now seared and bare. 2. Cauterized. Also figurative, of the conscience, heart, etc., rendered incapable of feeling. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted hard hearteOE steelena1000 hardOE hard-heartedc1225 stony?c1230 yhert1340 dure1412 hardedc1425 induratec1425 stonishc1450 hardenedc1480 steely1508 flinty1536 endured1540 stiff-stomached1540 heartless1556 indured1558 flint-hearted1560 iron1561 marble1565 stone-hearted?1569 stony-hearted1569 iron-hearted1570 steel-hearted1571 rocky?1578 brawned1582 flinted1582 padded1583 obdure?1590 brawny1596 flintful1596 flint-heart1596 steeled1600 cauterized1603 indurated1604 flinty-hearted1629 ahenean1630 dedolent1633 brawny-hearteda1639 hard-grained1643 callous1647 upsitten1682 seared1684 petrified1720 calloused1746 coreless1813 pebble-hearted1816 hard-shelled1848 hard-plucked1857 steel trap1921 1684 J. Sharp Disc. Conscience I. 7 If..we..talk of..a Tender Conscience or a Seared Conscience or the like. 1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (1894) 53 Seared is, of course my heart—but unsubdued Is, and shall be, my appetite for food. 1903 A. Smellie Men of Covenant vi. 90 Perhaps even this man, seared as his conscience was, felt a tremor of awe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.1538 |
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