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adjective
- 1. burned by flames or heat: "the suburbs resembled a battlefield with row after row of burned-out homes and the scorched remains of cars"
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SCORCHED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary. Meaning of scorched in English. scorched. adjective. uk / skɔːtʃt / us / skɔːrtʃt / Add to word list. slightly burned, or damaged by fire or heat: The countryside was scorched after several weeks of hot sun. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. having the liquid removed.
ˈskȯrcht. Synonyms of scorched. : parched or discolored by scorching. Examples of scorched in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web. These examples are automatically compiled from online sources to illustrate current usage. Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
scorched - having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy; "Sherman's scorched earth policy"
If something scorches or is scorched, it becomes marked or changes colour because it is affected by too much heat or by a chemical.
a slight burn, or a mark caused by burning: The fire left scorch marks halfway up the wall. Just cook it enough to get the grill marks and a little scorch here and there. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of scorch from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Scorch definition: to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly. See examples of SCORCH used in a sentence.
to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture; to dry or shrivel with or as if with intense heat : parch… See the full definition
To scorch is to burn something fiercely, to the point where its surface — your face, prairie grass, a steak on the grill — chars or otherwise changes color. Although scorch usually refers to burning something (whether it's the sun or a blowtorch doing the burning), that's not always the case.
Definitions of scorched. adjective. dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight. “the earth was scorched and bare” synonyms: adust, baked, parched, sunbaked. dry. free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet. adjective.
Definition of 'scorched' scorched in British English. (skɔːtʃt ) adjective. 1. slightly burned. the lamp with its scorched plastic shade. Her skirt was scorched, but hadn't caught alight. Several scorched items of debris have been recovered, including a life preserver marked with the name Night Watch. 2. parched or withered. scorched black earth.
