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scorched


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  Summer  drouth  or  sing[`e]d  air  Never  scorch  thy 
  tresses  fair.  --Milton. 
 
  2.  To  affect  painfully  with  heat,  or  as  with  heat;  to  dry  up 
  with  heat;  to  affect  as  by  heat. 
 
  Lashed  by  mad  rage,  and  scorched  by  brutal  fires. 
  --Prior. 
 
  3.  To  burn;  to  destroy  by  or  as  by  fire. 
 
  Power  was  given  unto  him  to  scorch  men  with  fire. 
  --Rev.  xvi.  8. 
 
  The  fire  that  scorches  me  to  death.  --Dryden. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  scorched 
  adj  1:  dried  out  by  heat  or  excessive  exposure  to  sunlight;  "a  vast 
  desert  all  adust";  "land  lying  baked  in  the  heat"; 
  "parched  soil";  "the  earth  was  scorched  and  bare"; 
  "sunbaked  salt  flats"  [syn:  {adust},  {baked},  {parched}, 
  {sunbaked}] 
  2:  having  everything  destroyed  so  nothing  is  left  salvageable 
  by  an  enemy;  "Sherman's  scorched  earth  policy" 
  3:  damaged  or  discolored  by  superficial  burning:"the  scorched 
  blouse  tore  easily" 




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