sere
pronunciation
How to pronounce sere in British English:
UK [sɪə]
How to pronounce sere in American English:
US [sɪr]
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- Adjective:
- (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
Word Origin
- sere (adj.)
- Old English sear "dried up, withered, barren," from Proto-Germanic *sauzas (cognates: Middle Low German sor, Dutch zoor), from PIE root *saus- "dry" (cognates: Sanskrit susyati "dries, withers;" Old Persian uška- "dry" (adj.), "land" (n.); Avestan huška- "dry;" Latin sudus "dry"). A good word now relegated to bad poetry. Related to sear. Sere month was an old name for "August."
Example
- 1. These effects are clear in morgan 's studies of cognitive performance during sere training .
- 2. Morgan is keen to run trials of the effects of dhea and npy on the cognitive resilience of sere trainees .
- 3. Soon the leaves well be discarded , the grass will sere .
- 4. Immediately after sere training the researchers gave soldiers a drink containing either a low or high dose of a carbohydrate that is rapidly digested to glucose , or a similar-tasting inert drink .
- 5. But when the researchers measured levels of the hormone in saliva samples taken during sere training , they found exactly the opposite .