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searest

searest is the superlative form of sear.

Meaning of sear

Adjective

sear (comparative searer or more sear, superlative searest or most sear)

  1. Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
    • There are in all but three vvayes of going thither [to the moon]. […] [The] third, Old Empedocles vvay; vvho vvhen he leaped into Ætna, having a drie ſeare bodie, and light, the ſmoake took him and vvhift him up into the Moone, vvhere he lives yet vvaving up and dovvne like a feather, all foot and...1620 January 17 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Newes from the New World Discover’d in the Moon. A Masque, […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The...

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Questions about searest

What is searest the superlative form of?
Searest is the superlative form of sear.

Words near searest in the dictionary

  1. Searcys
  2. seared
  3. searedness
  4. searer
  5. searers
  6. searest
  7. seareth
  8. Searfoss
  9. searge
  10. seargent
  11. seargents

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