sere
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9.9
- adjective
- /sɪr/
- Literature
:
seco
- With puzzlement, she surveyed the sere hills. "... into the darkness..."
- sere grass
- sere landscape
- sere autumn leaves
And that that symbol of that sere open wasteland is just no hope.
- And that that symbol of that sere open wasteland is just no hope.
Examples
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Ada worked a while with the fork to draw the brush together, and when she was done, the pile was as big as the corncrib and the air was full of the sere odor of cut and withered foliage.
Fiction book (1997) -
Wind whipped through leaves turning sere and yellow with early autumn, scattering them downward with a steady drip and drizzle following behind.
Fiction book (2000) -
She took my hand and we ran among the sere thistles.
Fiction book (1990) -
His eyes pounded, ached in their sere sockets.
Fiction book (2000) -
They chose the sere seaside chaparral over the lush park lawns for their photos, the bride hiking in heels and the groom keeping careful watch over his new wife.
Blog text (4) -
A couple of blocks west of the square, he was already verging on the edge of town; beyond the long low roof of Dotson's restaurant, there were woods, turned fired-clay red, patched with sere yellow, and a few deep green cedars standing anomalously among the other trees.
Fiction book (1990) -
Instead of Gran's waterfalls, they found frozen, soot-stained ice; instead of the pine groves of her stories, charcoal stumps thrust up through sere, blackened brush.
Fiction book (1992) -
In the night, a hoar frost had fallen that was to snow as sleep is to death; and the pale reaped fields, the sere meadows, and silent uplands were transfigured by the first gleam of day to a mystery and glory of silver and pearl.
Blog text (22) -
During the summer, the fields became sere, reflecting the harsh drought conditions.
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The sere branches of the trees contrasted sharply with the bright blue sky above.
Synonyms
18
3.5
No longer holds water and is very dry, like a riverbed or plant
3
3.4
A place with no water that is very dry like a desert
1
4.6
It looks dry, thin, and lifeless like old leaves
Dried and shrunken with a wrinkled surface from lack of water
Antonyms
How Dry
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sere comes from an old English word that meant 'dry' or 'withered', and it is related to the modern verb sear, which means 'to burn' or 'dry out'. That's why sere describes plants or leaves that have lost their moisture.