sere
Plural: seres
Adjective Satellite
- (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
- "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"
Adj
- Without moisture; dry.
- Of thoughts, etc.: barren, fruitless.
- Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.
- Individual, separate, set apart.
- Different; diverse.
Noun
- 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.
- A claw, a talon.
Adjective
- Withered, dry, and barren; parched.
Verb
Verb Forms: sered, sering, seres
- To scorch or char the surface of something; to sear.
Examples
- He decided to SERE his opponent’s hopes of winning by playing a difficult, unchallengeable word.
- The board felt SERE after both players had used up all the vowels, leaving only consonants.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English ser, sere, seare, seer, seere, seir, seyr (“dry, withered; emaciated, shrivelled; brittle; bare; dead, lifeless; barren, useless”), from Old English sēar, sīere (“dry, withered; barren; sere”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry, parched”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews-, *sh₂ews- (“to be dry”).
Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry and coarse”), Greek αὖος (av́os, “dry”), Lithuanian sausas (“dry”), Middle Low German sôr (Low German soor (“arid, dry”)), Old Church Slavonic соухъ (suχŭ, “dry”). Doublet of sear and sare.
Synonyms
dried-up, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered, anhydrous, arid, bone dry, droughty, dry, dry as a bone, exsuccous, parched, sare, seral community, sere, unmoist, waterless
Scrabble Score: 4
sere: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsere: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sere: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary