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scorched
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WordNet
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adj. 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 ] having everything destroyed ...
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Scorched is a 2003 independent comedy film starring Alicia Silverstone , Rachael Leigh Cook , Woody Harrelson , and John Cleese . The film was directed by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337157/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm| Gavin Grazer], brother of Academy Award -winning ...
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dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat. v (en-past of: scorch)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Usage examples of scorched.
It was every shade of gray, from scorched earth to beaten stone, and nothing lived in it for as far as the eye could see.
The flames they had called up had not injured them, but now the heat radiating back from the scorched valley walls was almost overpowering.
But as soon as Owen moved forward, the scorched sides just closed together again, like a slow-moving man trap.
It was mostly bones, scorched and blackened by the terrible energies of the disrupter beam, but somehow still held together by strands of bloody meat.
No matter their differences, no matter the distrust between them, her want of him scorched her to the core.
A disrupter blast scorched the great table from end to end, hitting no one, but leaving a long trail of burning wood behind it.
The brickwork was blackened and scorched, and the windows were all smashed, but otherwise it had held together.
Madelaine Skye beat at her smoldering clothes with her hands, blackened and scorched but still very much alive.
This whole world should be scorched and forgotten, a sick experiment that went horribly wrong.
Halloweenie was kneeling beside the scorched and blackened body of the Captain.
Virimonde was too valuable to be scorched, but its people could still be punished.
The scorched grass of the conflagration that had struck this land marred every slope and summit, although new green shoots had begun to appear.
Quick Ben reappear on the bank, stumbling from a warren, smoke streaming from his scorched leather armour.
Finally, in an eye-smarting blaze, it scorched the air with a shifting spell and vanished.
Flame flickered in the dark end, then a flash scorched a hole in the overhead wing.