Found 3 items, similar to scorch.
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: scorch
scorch
n 1: a surface burn [syn:
singe]
2: a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched
appearance of plant tissues
3: a discoloration caused by heat
v 1: make very hot and dry;
“The heat scorched the countryside”
[syn:
sear]
2: become superficially burned;
“my eyebrows singed when I bent
over the flames” [syn:
sear,
singe]
3: destroy completely by or as if by fire;
“The wildfire
scorched the forest and several homes”;
“the invaders
scorched the land”
4: 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” [syn:
char,
blacken]
5: become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry
conditions;
“The exposed tree scorched in the hot sun”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Scorch
Scorch
\Scorch\ (sk[^o]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Scorched; p.
pr. & vb. n.
Scorching.] [OE. scorchen, probably akin to
scorcnen; cf. Norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skr["o]kka,
to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. skr[*a]kkla to
wrinkle (see
Shrug); but perhaps influenced by OF.
escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F.
['e]corcher, 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.
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Summer drouth or sing[`e]d air
Never scorch thy tresses fair. --Milton.
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2. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up
with heat; to affect as by heat.
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Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
--Prior.
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3. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
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Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
--Rev. xvi. 8.
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The fire that scorches me to death. --Dryden.
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Scorch
\Scorch\, v. i.
1. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
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Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your
seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.
--Mortimer.
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2. To burn or be burnt.
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He laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter,
which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's
breast, as if it had been red hot. --Hawthorne.
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3. To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; --
applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.]
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Scorch"er, n. [Colloq.]