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Bone-dry, arid; withered.

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Usage examples (22)
  • Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.
  • He used it three and a half times in the book, annoying me at least as much as Andre Norton's use of 'sere' in every one of her books.
  • "Yes, sir, I'm a-looking, and there's a heap o 'sere' ood with a bit of
  • Of sere grass shivering in the trade-wind's sweep.
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