Scorching
['skɔːtʃɪŋ] or ['skɔrtʃɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface; 'scorching heat' .
(adv.) capable of causing burns; 'it was scorching hot'.
Edited by Erna--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scorch
(a.) Burning; parching or shriveling with heat.
Inputed by Ezra
Examples
- 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.
- The scorching heat on our faces drives us back: we see nothing--above, below, all through the room, we see nothing but a sheet of living fire. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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