SCORCH

scorch

(noun) a discoloration caused by heat

scorch

(noun) a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues

scorch, singe

(noun) a surface burn

scorch

(verb) become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions; “The exposed tree scorched in the hot sun”

sear, scorch

(verb) make very hot and dry; “The heat scorched the countryside”

char, blacken, sear, scorch

(verb) 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”

scorch

(verb) destroy completely by or as if by fire; “The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes”; “the invaders scorched the land”

scorch, sear, singe

(verb) become superficially burned; “my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

scorch (countable and uncountable, plural scorches)

A slight or surface burn.

A discolouration caused by heat.

(phytopathology) Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.

Synonyms

• (slight burn): singe

Verb

scorch (third-person singular simple present scorches, present participle scorching, simple past and past participle scorched)

(transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it

(transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy

(ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed

(intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).

To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

(transitive) To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.

(intransitive, colloquial, dated) To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.

Source: Wiktionary

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Scorch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scorched; p. pr. & vb. n. Scorching.] Etym: [OE. scorchen, probably akin to scorcnen; cf. Norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skrökka, to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. skråkkla to wrinkle (see Shrug); but perhaps influenced by OF. escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F. écorcher, 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 singed 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 scoch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot. Hawthorne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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