scorch

[scorch]

To scorch is to burn something fiercely, to the point where its surface your face, prairie grass, a steak on the grill chars or otherwise changes color.

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To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.

Noun
a discoloration caused by heat

Noun
a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues

Noun
a surface burn

Verb
become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions; "The exposed tree scorched in the hot sun"

Verb
make very hot and dry; "The heat scorched the countryside"

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Verb
burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling"

Verb
destroy completely by or as if by fire; "The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes"; "the invaders scorched the land"

Verb
become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"

v. t.
To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.

v. t.
To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.

v. t.
To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

v. i.
To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

v. i.
To burn or be burnt.

Scorch

Scorch , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scorched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scorching.] [OE. scorchen, probably akin to scorcnen; cf. Norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skr'94kka, to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. skr'86kkla to wrinkle (see Shrug); but perhaps influenced by OF. escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F. '82corcher, LL. excorticare; L. ex from + cortex, -icis, bark (cf. Cork); because the skin falls off when scorched.] 1. To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.

Summer drouth or singed air never scorch thy tresses fair.

2. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.

Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.

3. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

The fire that scorches me to death.

Scorch

Scorch, v. i. 1. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.

2. To burn or be burnt.

he laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scoch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot.

To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.

To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

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