Crossword clues for charred
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
burnt, carbonized. v
(en-past of: char)
WordNet
See char
n. a charred substance
a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the carpet" [syn: charwoman, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman]
any of several small-scaled trout
v. burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" [syn: coal]
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" [syn: blacken, scorch]
adj. having been burned so as to affect color or taste
Usage examples of "charred".
They wept as pitiful, charred faces, turned up towards the Ulysses and alight with joy and hope, petrified into incredulous staring horror, as realisation dawned and the water closed over them.
The air was strangely still and quiet, heavy with the sickening stench of charred flesh and burning Diesel, and the Ulysses's stern was swinging wildly almost under the black pall overhanging the Blue Ranger amidships, when the shells struck her.
From the turrets, from the Master-At-Arms's office, from mess decks and emergency steering position, they pulled out man after man who had been there when the Condor had crashed: pulled them out, looked at them, swore, wept and plunged back into the aftermath of that holocaust, oblivious of pain and danger, tearing aside wreckage, wreckage still burning, still red hot, with charred and broken gloves: and when the gloves fell off, they used their naked hands.
But the sailmakers were dead and no man would or could have sewn up these ghastly charred heaps in the weighted and sheeted canvas.
To me they were only a mouldy collection of bones and fossils and shells, of stone pestles and mortars, of charred timber and clay utensils and curiously shaped stones.
In one of the huts we could see charred and blackened generator machinery, ice-coated on the windward side, bent and twisted and melted almost out of recognition: one could only wonder at the furnace ferocity of the heat responsible.
I knew they were dead men, but only because Kinnaird had told me so: hideously charred and blackened and grotesquely misshapen as they were,, those carbonized and contorted lumps of matter could have been any form of life or, indeed, no form of life at all.
This charred mass of matter before me was a stranger, so utterly different from the man who lived on in my memory, so changed beyond all possibility of recognition that my numbed mind in my exhausted body just could not begin to bridge the gap.
I knew only too well what was in Hansen's mind's eye: that charred and huddled shapelessness that had once been my brother.
They're not dead men, they're just unrecognizable and unidentifiable lumps of charred matter.
Three huts, one of them badly charred, five blackened skeletons of what had once been huts.
This had nothing to do with any sympathetic neuro-muscular reaction caused by the wickedly charred right cheek.
The stench of charred flesh and burnt diesel seemed stronger, more nauseating than ever.
I stopped before one of the grotesquely misshapen charred lumps lying on the floor.
Every time they rip off a piece of charred insulation, the oil-soaked stuff below will burst into flames again as soon as it comes into contact with the oxygen in the atmosphere.