searing

• Rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ

searing

1. very hot; blistering or boiling
   • 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Phase II units in service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 69:

     Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves [...].

2. (of a pain) having a sensation of intense sudden heat
3. damning; critical; scathing

• searingly

searing (plural searings)

1. action of the verb to sear
   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:

     he was raw with the searings of the fire

   • 1970 August, Ebony, volume 25, number 10, page 156:

     It was the time of new searings of black identity deep within the psyche of the black community.

2. cooking food quickly at high temperature

searing

1. present participle of sear

• Aigners, Angries, Gainers, Gearins, Reagins, earings, erasing, gainers, inrages, raignes, reagins, regains, regians, reginas, seringa