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Answer for the clue "Lightly burn, like a steak ", 4 letters:
sear

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v. make very hot and dry; "The heat scorched the countryside" [syn: scorch ] become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames" [syn: scorch , singe ] cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun parched the earth" ...

Usage examples of sear.

Above the searing accretion disk, in hovering clouds, gossamer herds fed.

Carnie slide past the Batwing in a searing, but legal pass, using only that part of the lane where the Batwing ran.

Then, just as he felt that he must either founder or struggle in to take his chances upon shore, a besom of flame struck down from the sky and swept the beach clean before him, leaving only a burst of seared, exploded bodies and clouds of greasy smoke.

He remembered all those things with a physical anguish, as if every painting he had ever Blooded in more than three hundred years was being simultaneously pricked with needles and seared with candleflames.

Of his rent heart so hard and cold a creed Had seared with blistering ice--but he misdeems That he is wise, whose wounds do only bleed Inly for self,--thus thought the Iberian Priest indeed, 11.

Ramrod straight in his seat, immaculate in sharply creased morning casuals, monocle glinting in the mountain sunshine, Follingston-Heath wiped seared flounder flakes from his lower lip and eyed his friend questioningly.

I think when you pulled the keystone out of the Tower in the overworld, you also seared the physical one on Darkover.

With a gasp of pain, Petter dropped to one knee, clutching his seared hand to his breast.

It flared hotly, like gunpowder ignited in the open, searing the side of the island and three men standing below, cracking the glass in Fly Control and then rolled and tumbled down the flight deck, spraying out the white picric acid of its explosive filler.

Triple beams of searing energy lanced out from the rifles, and the polychromatic rays struck and clung to the sparkling defense fields.

Saul calls up rustic Sears catalogue scenes of fathers and sons in plaid flannel, lighting kerosene lanterns in front of pup tents and smiling at each other in mutual appreciation of their primogenital heritage.

Madame dominated the soft cheeks with her spanking hand, searing their curved flesh mercilessly and reddening them rapidly.

The infinitesimal fraction of that energy which was visible, heterodyned upon the ultra as it was and screened as it was, blazed so savagely upon the plates that it seared the eyes.

So sweet and searing that it was agony, and so exquisite that it was ecstasy.

And it was wonderful, because she knew that she had not reached that searing splendor alone, that she had been everything he had wanted, that he had filled her, been a part of her, and would be, from now until forever.