Crossword clues for scorching
scorching
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 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.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
Scorching \Scorch"ing\, a.
Burning; parching or shriveling with heat.
sufficiently hot to cause scorching. [PJC] -- Scorch"ing*ly, adv. -- Scorch"ing*ness, n.
Wiktionary
Very hot. n. The act or result of something being scorched. v
(present participle of scorch English)
WordNet
adj. hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface; "scorching heat"
adv. capable of causing burns; "it was scorching hot"
Usage examples of "scorching".
But they took her aboard, drenching her with stinging antiseptics, scorching her skin with bactericidal ultraviolet rays.
They left scorching tracks in the land, and Ijo the Scholar had his arm singed by one, though he was not badly hurt.
Strength of the Scorching Sun stinks and poisons the distrest Mariners, who are rendered unactive, and disabled by Scurvies, raging and mad with Calentures and Fevers, and drop into Death in such a Manner, that at last the Living are lost, for Want of the Dead, that is, for want of Hands to work the Ship.
A shaft of unscattered sunlight poured down through the skin, made visible by the dust and vapor of the very fabric it was scorching to mist.
It sounded like a gas boiler igniting, then, as if from the mouth of a giant unslain dragon, a huge yellow and red breath of flame roared out the gutted doorway, scorching the wallpaper and the picture rails on the opposite wall.
On the campaign trail, Barnett was transformed from a kindly grandfather figure into a zealot of scorching defiance and ferocity.
Angry bees chased him across an endless Dali desert, tormenting him, scorching him, until, wounded and dying, he fell.
Tramps or ex-soldiers passing through town had scattered trash through the rooms and built unconfined cook fires on the hearths, blackening the walls and scorching the ceilings.
The last time, O Congrio, that I gave a banquet to my friends, when thy vanity did so boldly undertake the becoming appearance of a Melian crane--thou knowest it came up like a stone from AEtna--as if all the fires of Phlegethon had been scorching out its juices.
His skin and eyes, though protected from the scorching flames by Daystar Clarion, were red from the heat and stung maddeningly.
The bush-fire travels through the scrubs for hundreds of miles, taking the grass to the roots, scorching the living bush but leaving it alive--for gumbush is hardest of any to kill.
He was turned aside by the fire, and hid among some almost scorching heaps of broken wall as one of the Martian giants returned.
One day Lacey decided to brave the scorching heat and ride into Marengo to buy some thread.
There ought to be some traces of that incredible presence-the marks of scorching or destruction.
Fire in dry peatland can smoulder for years, scorching the boots of those who tread it and turning great stretches into wasteland.