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Spearing vs Searing - What's the difference?

spearing | searing |

As verbs the difference between spearing and searing

is that spearing is present participle of lang=en while searing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between spearing and searing

is that spearing is the stabbing of something with a spear while searing is action of the verb to sear

As an adjective searing is

very hot; blistering or boiling.

spearing

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The stabbing of something with a spear.
  • * 2011 , Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, Phyllis C. Lee, The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal (page 297)
    • These spearings were not related to livestock killed but to young boys trying to prove their bravery.

    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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