Scorch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1.
  • v. To wither or parch with intense heat.
  • v. To destroy (land and buildings) by or as if by fire so as to leave nothing salvageable to an enemy army.
  • v. To subject to severe censure; excoriate.
  • verb-intransitive. To become scorched or singed.
  • verb-intransitive. To go or move at a very fast, often excessively fast rate.
  • n. A slight or surface burn.
  • n. A discoloration caused by heat.
  • n. Brown spotting on plant leaves caused by fungi, heat, or lack of water.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A slight or surface burn.
  • n. A discolouration caused by heat.
  • n. Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.
  • v. To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
  • v. To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
  • v. To become scorched or singed
  • v. To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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.
  • v. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.
  • v. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
  • verb-intransitive. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
  • verb-intransitive. To burn or be burnt.
  • verb-intransitive. To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; -- applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.]
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To burn superficially; subject to a degree of heat that changes the color, or both the color and the texture, of the surface; parch or shrivel up the surface of by heat; singe.
  • To burn or consume, as by the direct application of fire.
  • To give the sensation of burning; affect with a sensation or an effect similar to that produced by burning; figuratively, to attack with caustic invective or sarcasm.
  • Synonyms Scorch, Singe, Sear, Char. Parch. To scorch is to burn superficially or slightly, but so as to change the color or injure the texture; sometimes, from the common effect of heat, the word suggests shriveling or curling, but not generally. Singe is one degree more external than scorch; we speak of singeing the hair and scorching the skin; a fowl is singed to remove the hairs after plucking out the feathers. Sear has primary reference to drying, but more commonly to hardening, by heat, as by cauterization; hence its figurative use, as when we speak of seared sensibilities, a seared conscience, heat not being thought of as a part of the figure. To char is to reduce to carbon or a black cinder, especially on the surface: when a timber is charred it is burned black on the outside and to an uncertain depth. Parch has a possible meaning of burning superficially or roasting, as in parched corn or peanuts, but almost always refers to drying or shriveling.
  • To be burned on the surface; become parched or dried up.
  • To ride very fast on a bicycle or in a motor-car.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
  • n. a surface burn
  • v. destroy completely by or as if by fire
  • v. make very hot and dry
  • n. a discoloration caused by heat
  • v. become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions
  • v. become superficially burned
  • n. a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues
  • Verb Form
    scorched    scorches    scorching    scorchs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    burn    burn down    fire    discoloration    stain    discolouration    dry    dry out    combust   
    Form
    scorchy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    burn    run    chary    hasten   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    porch    torch   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    char    mangle    sodden    wither    wet    crumple    dusty    grimy    leathery    greasy