Scorched

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scorch \Scorch\ (sk[^o]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scorched}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Scorching}.] [OE. scorchen, probably akin to
     scorcnen; cf. Norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skr["o]kka,
     to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. skr[*a]kkla to
     wrinkle (see {Shrug}); but perhaps influenced by OF.
     escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F.


     ['e]corcher, LL. excorticare; L. ex from + cortex, -icis,
     bark (cf. {Cork}); because the skin falls off when scorched.]
     1. To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface
        of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color
        and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.
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              Summer drouth or sing[`e]d air
              Never scorch thy tresses fair.        --Milton.
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     2. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up
        with heat; to affect as by heat.
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              Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
                                                    --Prior.
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     3. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
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              Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
                                                    --Rev. xvi. 8.
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              The fire that scorches me to death.   --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scorched
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {adust}, {baked}, {parched},
               {sunbaked}]
       2: having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable
          by an enemy; "Sherman's scorched earth policy"
       3: damaged or discolored by superficial burning:"the scorched
          blouse tore easily"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "scorched":
     adust, aggravated, ashen, ashy, baked, blistered, broken, burned,
     burnt, burnt-up, burst, busted, checked, chipped, consumed,
     consumed by fire, corky, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, dehydrated,
     desiccated, deteriorated, dried, dried-up, embittered, evaporated,
     exacerbated, exsiccated, gutted, harmed, hurt, impaired, imperfect,
     in bits, in pieces, in shards, incinerated, injured, irritated,
     lacerated, mangled, mummified, mutilated, parched, pyrographic,
     pyrolyzed, rent, ruptured, scalded, sear, seared, sere, shattered,
     shriveled, singed, slashed, slit, smashed, split, sprung,
     sun-dried, sunbaked, sunburned, the worse for, torn, weakened,
     weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizened, worse, worse off,
     worsened