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英英字典: scorched




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")

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