sere, dried-up, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered
(adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; “dried-up grass”; “the desert was edged with sere vegetation”; “shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings”; “withered vines”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sere (comparative serer, superlative serest)
(archaic or literary, poetic) Without moisture; dry.
Synonyms: sare (Britain, archaic), sear, Thesaurus:dry
(obsolete) Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.
sere (plural seres)
(ecology) A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved. [from early 20th c.]
Synonym: seral community
• hydrosere
• lithosere
• psammosere
sere (plural seres)
(obsolete) A claw, a talon.
sere (comparative more sere, superlative most sere)
(obsolete or Britain, dialectal) Individual, separate, set apart.
(obsolete or Britain, dialectal) Different; diverse.
• EERs, Erse, REEs, Rees, SEER, eres, rees, rese, seer
An acronym of the main topics, survival, evasion, resistance, and escape.
SERE (uncountable)
(military) A training program in the United States military to train personnel in survival, evasion, resistance, and escape, preparatory for potential capture by enemy forces.
• EERs, Erse, REEs, Rees, SEER, eres, rees, rese, seer
Source: Wiktionary
Sear, Sere, a.
Definition: [OE. seer, AS. seár (assumed) fr. seárian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. soren to to wither, Gr. sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. sq. root152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves. Milton. I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. Shak.
Sere, a.
Definition: Dry; withered. Same as Sear. But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere. Coleridge.
Sere, n. Etym: [F. serre.]
Definition: Claw; talon. [Obs.] Chapman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
