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Answer for the clue "Rich gran (anag) ", 8 letters:
charring

Word definitions for charring in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Char \Char\ (ch[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charred (ch[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Charring .] [Prob. the same word as char to perform (see Char , n.), the modern use coming from charcoal, prop. coal-turned, turned to coal.] To reduce to coal or carbon by ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Charring is a chemical process of incomplete combustion of certain solids when subjected to high heat . The resulting residue matter is called char . By the action of heat, charring removes hydrogen and oxygen from the solid, so that the remaining char ...

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The incomplete combustion of organic material. vb. (present participle of char English)

Usage examples of charring.

The General bounded over the field past charring hulks, into a range where there were no other living Red tanks but his.

He was exquisitely aware of Clare's agony, and the reek of charring flesh and burning blood.

Later in the Pot, the Liquid charring itself toward Vileness appeals more to those looking for bodily stimuli, like Dixon, who is able to sip the most degradedly awful pot's-end poison and yet beam like an Idiot, "Mm-m m!

Without the protective white covering, the scene was more repellent than before, the extent of the devastation more clearly and dishearteningly evident, and the stench of oil and charring more pungent and penetrating.

But the burning wasn't complete, a lot of alligatoring, a lot of surface charring.

So Evagh fetched water in urns from the sea and cast it upon the ashes and charrings so that he might approach the corpses.

And then on to the next house, while behind the flames lick up, blistering the enamels, cracking the porcelain, charring the polished wood, blackening the bright paint, smouldering the silks and rugs, crackling under the eaves.

Meanwhile, she'd do a bit of charring to earn her keep, maybe offer to clean some of the rooms in the lodging house for a few pence.

He smelt olive wood and pine, kerosene, dry thorn, resin, oil, and charring flesh.

The lady did, as I have intimated, a bit of charring, a bit of plain sewing, and also derived no small revenue from her vegetables and fruit, thus managing, as she owned the free-hold of the premises, to make a decent living for herself and child.

She shook the yoke in her hand, spraying fire around as though using a nozzle to water a patch of grass, and saw one of the beams strike home, charring a hole in the starfighter's port solar array wing.