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Scorch   /skɔrtʃ/   Listen
Scorch

verb
(past & past part. scorched; pres. part. scorching)
1.
Make very hot and dry.  Synonym: sear.
2.
Become superficially burned.  Synonyms: sear, singe.
3.
Destroy completely by or as if by fire.  "The invaders scorched the land"
4.
Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color.  Synonyms: blacken, char, sear.  "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece" , "The flames scorched the ceiling"
5.
Become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions.
noun
1.
A surface burn.  Synonym: singe.
2.
A plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues.
3.
A discoloration caused by heat.



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"Scorch" Quotes from Famous Books



... see Ravenna burn, Flame into heaven, and scorch the flying clouds; I'd choke her streets with ruined palaces; I'd hear her women scream with fear and grief, As I have heard the maids of Rimini. All this I'd sprinkle with old Guido's ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker
... it," quoth she, "in Apocryphal Writ"— And the Devil stoop'd down, and kiss'd her; Not Jove himself, when he courted in flame, On Semele's lips, the love-scorch'd Dame, ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb
... not the keen sting of him scorch up the land? Hath not the young bread of our bellies been slain? I, Bakahenzie, have seen it! ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... war flunged off'n the bluff we hed squinched the fire ter pledjure Bob, ez he war afeard Santy Claus would scorch his feet comm' down the chimbley,—powerful lucky fur we uns; the fire would ...
— The Christmas Miracle - 1911 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
... slopes, rather than while speeding along the solitary road which snakes across them to the mountains, because the great gift of the bicycle consists to my mind in something apart from mere rapid locomotion; so much so, indeed, that those persons forego it, who scorch along for mere exercise, or to get from place to place, or to read the record of miles on their cyclometer. There is an unlucky tendency—like the tendency to litter on the part of inanimates and to dulness on that of our fellow-creatures—to ...
— Hortus Vitae - Essays on the Gardening of Life • Violet Paget, AKA Vernon Lee


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