Scorch

Definition of Scorch

Pronunciation: skôrch

v. t.	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. [imp. & p. p. Scorched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scorching.] Summer drouth or singèd 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.
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 scorch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot. - Hawthorne.
	3.	To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; - applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.]

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