| 单词 | sere |
| 释义 | sere (once / 7987 pages) adj You can describe something that is dried up, withered, or without moisture with the adjective sere. The desert climate, for example, is sere, as is your skin after a day in the wind. Sere’s shriveled and withered meaning crops up in things like Shakespeare's Macbeth ("My way of life Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf;" 5:III), or in archaic references to Sere-month (August), but it isn't frequently used in modern conversation. The variant spelling of sere is sear, which has other meanings that see more modern use. WORD FAMILYsere: sereer, sereness, serest USAGE EXAMPLESInstead, the government relied on data from a training program to resist enemy interrogators, called SERE, for Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape. New York Times(Oct 08, 2016) In the early 2000s the CIA hired two clinical psychologists to create an interrogation program that incorporated aspects of SERE. Washington Post(Nov 10, 2016) Instead, the government relied on data from a training program to resist enemy interrogators, called SERE, for Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape. New York Times(Oct 08, 2016) adj (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture the desert was edged with sere vegetation Syn dried-up, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered dry free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。