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US
/ˈskɔɹtʃ/
]
[ UK /skˈɔːtʃ/ ]
[ UK /skˈɔːtʃ/ ]
NOUN
- a surface burn
- a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues
- a discoloration caused by heat
VERB
-
destroy completely by or as if by fire
The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes
the invaders scorched the land -
become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions
The exposed tree scorched in the hot sun -
become superficially burned
my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames -
burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
the flames scorched the ceiling
The cook blackened the chicken breast
The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece -
make very hot and dry
The heat scorched the countryside
How To Use scorch In A Sentence
- The scorched surface should be covered with this liniment and then with a layer of borated gauze or absorbent cotton, to protect from the air. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
- Each animal is shown completely isolated, without context or even a horizon line, while the siennas, ochers and blacks of the scorches make for forms that pop out from the bare backgrounds.
- Not so much a summer scorcher, then, but a hot ticket that remains boisterously good fun for the undemanding multiplex-goers.
- They are then strung from trees and dangle in the scorching sun. Times, Sunday Times
- The scorching has been caused by frost. Times, Sunday Times
- This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt. Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
- To the east the cordillera was scorched and spent, rubbled by decades of desperate agriculture.
- Under the sands and scorching sun of Arabia. Times, Sunday Times
- For example, warring factions often induce drought and famine through the use of scorched-earth tactics.
- If the weather turns dry raise the height of cut to prevent browning and scorching of the grass.