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Definition of Scorch

1. Verb. Make very hot and dry. "The heat scorched the countryside"

2. Noun. A surface burn.

3. Verb. Become superficially burned. "My eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"

4. Noun. A plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues.

5. Verb. Destroy completely by or as if by fire. "The invaders scorched the land"

6. Noun. A discoloration caused by heat.

7. Verb. Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color. "The flames scorched the ceiling"

8. Verb. Become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions. "The exposed tree scorched in the hot sun"

Definition of Scorch

1. v. t. 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.

2. v. i. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

3. v. i. To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; -- applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.]

Definition of Scorch

1. Noun. A slight or surface burn. ¹

2. Noun. A discolouration caused by heat. ¹

3. Noun. Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To become scorched or singed ¹

7. Verb. (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scorch

1. to burn slightly so as to alter the color or taste [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Medical Definition of Scorch

1. 1. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up. "Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching." (Mortimer) 2. To burn or be burnt. "he laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scoch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot." (Hawthorne) 1. To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes colour and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen. "Summer drouth or singed 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) Origin: OE. Scorchen, probably akin to scorcnen; cf. Norw. Skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skrokka, to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. Skrakkla to wrinkle (see Shrug); but perhaps influenced by OF. Escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F. Ecorcher, LL. Excorticare; L. Ex from + cortex, -icis, bark (cf. Cork); because the skin falls off when scorched. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scorch

scopulae scopulas scopulate scopuliped scopulous scorable scorbic scorbut scorbute scorbutic

scorbutic anaemia scorbutical scorbutigenic scorbutogenic scorbutus scorch (current term) scorched scorched-earth scorched-earth policies scorched-earth policy

scorched earth scorched earth policies scorched earth policy scorcher scorchers scorches scorchest scorcheth scorching scorchingly

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