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Searing vs Staring - What's the difference?

searing | staring |

As nouns the difference between searing and staring

is that searing is action of the verb to sear while staring is the act of one who stares.

As verbs the difference between searing and staring

is that searing is while staring is .

As an adjective searing

is very hot; blistering or boiling.

searing

English

Adjective

(head)
  • very hot; blistering or boiling
  • (of a pain) having a sensation of intense sudden heat

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • action of the verb to sear
  • *
    • he was raw with the searings of the fire
  • * 1970 , Ebony (volume 25, number 10, August 1970, page 156)
    • It was the time of new searings of black identity deep within the psyche of the black community.
  • cooking food quickly at high temperature

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    staring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who stares.
  • * (Herman Melville), Pierre
    • Then the bewilderingness of the old starings of the solitary old man and old woman, by the cracked hearth-stone of the desolate old house, in the desolate, round, open space

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