3 adjectives to describe searings

Hideous, pitiable, soul-searing are the scars that it leaves in its mephitic wake, but the cleansing tide of the brown and the blue sweeps on, and the healing wand of time waves over them, and soon the shell-holes and the waste places and the abominations of desolation are covered with little flowersor would be if it were Spring.

Hideous, pitiable, soul-searing are the scars that it leaves in its mephitic wake, but the cleansing tide of the brown and the blue sweeps on, and the healing wand of time waves over them, and soon the shell-holes and the waste places and the abominations of desolation are covered with little flowersor would be if it were Spring.

She banished it on the instant with startled precipitancy; but it left a scar behind that burned like the sudden searing of a hot iron.

3 adjectives to describe  searings