scorch
IPA: skˈɔrtʃ
noun
- A slight or surface burn.
- A discolouration caused by heat.
- (phytopathology) Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.
verb
- (transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
- (transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
- (ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed
- (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
- To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
- (transitive) To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
- (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.
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Examples of "scorch" in Sentences
- In addition, It is scorched to cure.
- Texas had the scorching summer of 2003.
- Cars in the summertime can be scorching.
- It really is scorching hot in the summer.
- The potatoes are scorched under the fire.
- Her skin is being scorched under the sun.
- So, summer is the time to scorch the earth.
- They flare up like little flames scorching the audience.
- Nonetheless, the helicopter reaches the scorched riverbank.
- With the help of the sun, it is scorched thorouhgly and finely.
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