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Adjective: scorched  skorcht
  1. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
    "the earth was scorched and bare";
    - adust [archaic], baked, parched, sunbaked
     
  2. Having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy
    "Sherman's scorched earth policy"
Verb: scorch  skorch
  1. Subject to harsh criticism
    "your invectives scorched the community";
    - blister, scald, whip [informal]
     
  2. Make very hot and dry
    "The heat scorched the countryside";
    - sear
     
  3. Become superficially burned
    "my eyebrows scorched when I bent over the flames";
    - sear, singe
     
  4. Destroy completely by or as if by fire
    "The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes"; "the invaders scorched the land"
     
  5. (cooking) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect colour
    "the flames scorched the ceiling";
    - char, blacken, sear
     
  6. Become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions
    "The exposed tree scorched in the hot sun"

See also: destroyed, dry

Type of: assail, assault, attack, burn, burn down, combust, dry, dry out, fire, heat, heat up, lash out, round, snipe

Encyclopedia: Scorched

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