scorched

[ US /ˈskɔɹtʃt/ ]
[ UK /skˈɔːt‍ʃt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
    land lying baked in the heat
    the earth was scorched and bare
    sunbaked salt flats
    a vast desert all adust
    parched soil
  2. having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy
    Sherman's scorched earth policy
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How To Use scorched 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
  • - not essential; supplemental; superfluous v. - attract and hold to surface (minute particles of mixture or molecules of gas or liquid). adsorbate, aduncous, aduncate adj. - hook-shaped; crooked. aduncity, adust adj. - (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy, sad. Xml's Blinklist.com
  • - not essential; supplemental; superfluous v. - attract and hold to surface (minute particles of mixture or molecules of gas or liquid). adsorbate, aduncous, aduncate adj. - hook-shaped; crooked. aduncity, adust adj. - (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy, sad. Xml's Blinklist.com
  • To the east the cordillera was scorched and spent, rubbled by decades of desperate agriculture.
  • For example, warring factions often induce drought and famine through the use of scorched-earth tactics.
  • The countryside had been scorched; the acacia hedges were tipped with orange.
  • As I type, an angry thunderstorm is rolling across the skies and the rain is lashing down onto the scorched pavements; now gently steaming.
  • They said their main worry was that their fields might be scorched. Times, Sunday Times
  • I live in an area that was scorched by drought for several years.
  • The thin leaves of deciduous trees and herbs would be scorched, so they were not evolved. EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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