Overview of verb scorch

The verb scorch has 5 senses

• sear, scorch -- (make very hot and dry; "The heat scorched the countryside")


• scorch, sear, singe -- (become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames")


• scorch -- (destroy completely by or as if by fire; "The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes"; "the invaders scorched the land")


• char, blacken, sear, scorch -- (burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling")


• scorch -- (become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions; "The exposed tree scorched in the hot sun")

Overview of adj scorched

The adj scorched has 2 senses

• adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked -- (dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats")


• scorched -- (having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy; "Sherman's scorched earth policy")