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"ref": "2001, Ben Stivers, Wrath of Magic, page 123",
"text": "I will sear the skin from your flesh. You will die a thousand deaths!",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2010, Jeff Potter, Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food, page 180",
"text": "When you drop the tuna onto the pan, the outside will sear and cook quickly while leaving as much of the center as possible in its raw state.",
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"ref": "2016, Melissa Cookston, Smokin' Hot in the South, page 12",
"text": "I often will sear steaks, move them to a cooler side, then use the hot side to grill or sauté vegetables, make a sauce in a cast-iron skillet, or grill some fruit for dessert while the steak finishes.",
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"(transitive) To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument."
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "lafaḥa",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "لَفَحَ"
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"roman": "obgarjam",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "обгарям"
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "socarrar"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"tags": [
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"word": "sežehnout"
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
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"code": "da",
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"raw_tags": [
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
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"word": "dichtschroeien"
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"word": "polttaa"
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "griller"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "calciner"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "marquer"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "ausbrennen"
},
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "versengen"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "scharf anbraten"
},
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "ausdörren"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "verbrennen"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "austrocknen"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "einbrennen"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "gatandjan",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "rosolare"
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{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "bruciacchiare"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "fare passare al salto"
},
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "hūhunu"
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{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "hunuhunu"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "sasir"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "rimar"
},
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "grasilhar"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "marcar"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "cremar"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "usclar"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "dağlamak",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "داغلامق"
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{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "queimar"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "chamuscar"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "tostar"
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{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prižigatʹ",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "прижигать"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obžigatʹ",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "обжигать"
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{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "chamuscar"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "sveda"
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"_dis1": "93 3 1 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "bränna"
}
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{
"ref": "1852 May, Henry F. French, “Some Remarks on Subsoil Plowing”, in The New England Farmer, volume 4, number 5, page 231",
"text": "The drought was so severe as to sear the grass and the leaves of maple trees which had grown well for two years, standing in sward land by the roadside, and yet the corn, within ten feet, on the subsoiled land, did not roll once in the whole season, even at mid-day, and there was scarcely another piece in the neighborhood which escaped serious injury.",
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{
"ref": "1971, Chapters From the American Experience, page 277",
"text": "The spring and summer of 1936 brought to the Great Plains one of those terrible periodic droughts that sear the crops and convert the “short-grass country” into a desert.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Bernard N. Lee, Jr., Michele Barand, A Look Back in Time, page 50",
"text": "The early morning sun had begun to sear the grass.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Michael Furie, Peg Aloi, JD Hortwort, Llewellyn's 2019 Sabbats Almanac",
"text": "She might just as easily have been a goddess of the harvest, since the ancient Greeks sowed in the fall and reaped in the spring before the dry heat of summer could sear the crops in the fields.",
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"To wither; to dry up."
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"glosses": [
"To make callous or insensible."
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"(transitive, figurative) To make callous or insensible."
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{
"text": "The events of that day were seared into her memory.",
"type": "example"
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"To mark permanently, as if by burning."
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"(transitive, figurative) To mark permanently, as if by burning."
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"ref": "2010, Jeff Potter, Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food, page 180",
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"ref": "2014, Bernard N. Lee, Jr., Michele Barand, A Look Back in Time, page 50",
"text": "The early morning sun had begun to sear the grass.",
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{
"ref": "2018, Michael Furie, Peg Aloi, JD Hortwort, Llewellyn's 2019 Sabbats Almanac",
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"word": "لَفَحَ"
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"word": "обгарям"
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "socarrar"
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"word": "aanbraden"
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "kärventää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "korventaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "polttaa"
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
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"lifestyle"
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},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "griller"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "brûler"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "calciner"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "marquer"
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "ausbrennen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "versengen"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "scharf anbraten"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "ausdörren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "verbrennen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "austrocknen"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"word": "einbrennen"
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽"
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"word": "bruciacchiare"
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{
"code": "it",
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"word": "fare passare al salto"
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"word": "hūhunu"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"word": "hunuhunu"
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "sasir"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "rimar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "grasilhar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "marcar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
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{
"code": "oc",
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "usclar"
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{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "dağlamak",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "داغلامق"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "queimar"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "tostar"
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "прижигать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "обжигать"
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "chamuscar"
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"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
"word": "sveda"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument",
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"3": "*sēr"
},
"expansion": "Old Frisian *sēr",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*sair"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *sair",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sore"
},
"expansion": "English sore",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "zeer"
},
"expansion": "Dutch zeer",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Frisian *sēr, from Proto-West Germanic *sair. Compare English sore, Dutch zeer.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "fy-infl-adj",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "sear",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial",
"positive",
"predicative"
]
},
{
"form": "searder",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial",
"comparative",
"predicative"
]
},
{
"form": "it searst",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial",
"predicative",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "it searste",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial",
"predicative",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "seare",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"indefinite",
"positive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "seardere",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"comparative",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "searste",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"indefinite",
"singular",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "sear",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"neuter",
"positive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "searder",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"indefinite",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "searste",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"neuter",
"singular",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "seare",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"plural",
"positive"
]
},
{
"form": "seardere",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "searste",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"plural",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "seare",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"definite",
"positive"
]
},
{
"form": "seardere",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"definite"
]
},
{
"form": "searste",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"definite",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "sears",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"positive"
]
},
{
"form": "searders",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"partitive"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"partitive",
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "adjective"
},
"expansion": "sear",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "fy-infl-adj"
}
],
"lang": "West Frisian",
"lang_code": "fy",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"West Frisian adjectives",
"West Frisian entries with incorrect language header",
"West Frisian lemmas",
"West Frisian terms derived from Old Frisian",
"West Frisian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"West Frisian terms inherited from Old Frisian",
"West Frisian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"en:Fire"
],
"glosses": [
"painful"
],
"links": [
[
"painful",
"painful"
]
]
}
],
"word": "sear"
}
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