Usually means: Applying intense heat to food.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word searing:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. searing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. searing: Merriam-Webster
  3. searing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. searing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. searing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Searing, searing: Wordnik
  7. searing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Searing, searing: Wiktionary
  9. searing: Dictionary.com
  10. searing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Searing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Searing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Searing: Rhymezone
  14. Searing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. searing: FreeDictionary.org
  16. searing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. searing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. searing: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. searing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. searing: Encyclopedia

(Note: See sear as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  very hot; blistering or boiling
adjective:  (of a pain) having a sensation of intense sudden heat
adjective:  (figuratively) unbearably intense or emotionally powerful
adjective:  damning; critical; scathing
noun:  action of the verb to sear
noun:  cooking food quickly at high temperature
noun:  A surname.

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