Scorch
[skɔːtʃ] or [skɔrtʃ]
Definition
(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.) 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'.
Editor: William--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Rosanna
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Burn (slightly), singe, char, roast, parch.
Typed by Debora
Definition
v.t. to burn slightly: to roast highly: to affect painfully with heat: to singe: to attack with virulence.—v.i. to be burned on the surface: to be dried up: (slang) to ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.—ns. Scorched′-car′pet -wing British geometrid moths; Scorch′er anything that scorches a very caustic rebuke criticism &c.: one who rides a bicycle furiously on a road; Scorch′ing.—p.adj. burning superficially: bitterly sarcastic scathing.—adv. Scorch′ingly.—n. Scorch′ingness.
Inputed by Bennett
Examples
- I'm being scorched in the legs, which indeed is testified to the noses of all present by the smell of his worsted stockings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Insurmountable heaps sometimes opposed themselves; the still burning fires scorched me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:--Day its fervid fires had wasted, and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Perhaps they scorched and grilled it, but they could not have done much more, because they had no cooking implements. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The earth is scorched with fire; the sea becomes as the blood of a dead man; the islands flee away; the mountains are not found. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He took it from my hand, held it up, and surveyed the bed, all blackened and scorched, the sheets drenched, the carpet round swimming in water. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was a dreadful hour--an hour from which she emerged shrinking and seared, as though her lids had been scorched by its actual glare. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I will endure thy sun's scorching rays, O God of Mercy! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It is next passed to the cooking department and placed in huge steam-jacketed kettles, which revolve continually and thus keep the chicle from scorching. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is a scorching, arid, repulsive solitude. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We saw water, then, but nowhere in all the waste around was there a foot of shade, and we were scorching to death. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Across all her imaginative adornment of those whom she loved, there darted now and then a keen discernment, which was not without a scorching quality. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was traversing the scorching sands of a mighty desert, barefoot and alone. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Don't keep me long; the fire scorches me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Editor: Manuel