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Definitions for: Scorch
[n] a discoloration caused by heat
[n] a surface burn
[v] cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun parched the earth"
[v] make very hot and dry; "The heat scorched the countryside"
[v] 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"
[v] destroy completely by or as if by fire; "The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes"
[v] become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"
[v] censor and criticize sharply and harshly; "scorching remarks"
Webster (1913) Definition: Scorch, v. i.
To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; --
applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.] --
Scorch"er, n. [Colloq.]
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.
Summer drouth or sing[`e]d air Never scorch thy
tresses fair. --Milton.
2. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up
with heat; to affect as by heat.
Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
--Prior.
3. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
--Rev. xvi. 8.
The fire that scorches me to death. --Dryden.
Scorch, v. i.
1. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your
seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.
--Mortimer.
2. To burn or be burnt.
He laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter,
which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's
breast, as if it had been red hot. --Hawthorne.
Synonyms: blacken, char, parch, sear, singe
See Also: burn, burn, burn down, combust, criticise, criticize, discoloration, discolouration, dry, dry out, fire, heat, heat up, pick apart, singe, sizzle, stain, swinge
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