1. seared - Adjective
2. seared - Verb
4. seared - Adjective Satellite
of Sear
Scorched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran
It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical, fit at last to be the bride of God. But instead I was blinded and seared and struck down by terrible light. Olaf Stapledon
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Yet there be certain times in a young man's life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood. Rudyard Kipling
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own. Mohnish Pabrai
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again. Edgar Allan Poe