The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SEAR
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More clues leading to the result SEAR
- Catch the utterance of a wise person
- Announced prophet’s brand
- Brand buttocks, right side then left
- Expanse of water has run dry
- Brand has ears boxed
- This brown dog barking could become so raged
- Some worms: early cock’s catch?
- Brand new year’s unbegun
- Braise artichoke partly and brown
- Burn coming from ocean before river
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What does SEAR mean?
SEAR adjective- Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
- A scar produced by searing
- Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.
- To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.
- To wither; to dry up.
- To make callous or insensible.
- To mark permanently, as if by burning.