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Definition of Scorched

1. Adjective. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight. "Sunbaked salt flats"

2. Adjective. Having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy. "Sherman's scorched earth policy"

Definition of Scorched

1. Adjective. Dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat. ¹

2. Verb. (past of scorch) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scorched

1. scorch [v] - See also: scorch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scorched

scopulas scopulate scopuliped scopulous scorable scorbic scorbut scorbute scorbutic scorbutic anaemia

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

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

Literary usage of Scorched

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... or quite gone from him, to his mistress's bosom belike, he is in an oven, a salamander in the fire, so scorched with love's heat; he wisheth himself a ..."

2. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... The First Lot of Matches — An Astonished Indian — Curiosity Aroused — A Wonderful Box — Testing the Matches One by One — scorched Fingers — My Treasures ..."

3. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... a salamander in the fire, so scorched with love's heat ; he wisheth himself a saddle for her to sit on, a posy for her to smell to, and it would not ..."

4. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"About ten days after, he was struck with a violent burning fever, of which he died ; by which his body was so scorched, that the people said, ..."

5. Meditations and Contemplations by James Hervey (1813)
"... sense. scorched by the flames of avenging wrath: That I, Ye planets, that, winged with unimaginable speed, traverse the regions of the sky; ..."

6. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"... has made Jacksonville a little Eden, has been burnt, and scorched, and rris[ie<l, if not entirely consumed to ashes, by the devouring flames. ..."

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