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scorch /ˈskɔrʧ/
燒焦,枯黃(vt.)(vi.)燒焦,拷焦,(使)枯萎,諷刺
Scorch v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scorched p. pr. & vb. n. Scorching.]
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 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.
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 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.] -- Scorch*er, n. [Colloq.]
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scorch
n 1: a surface burn [syn: singe]
2: a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched
appearance of plant tissues
3: a discoloration caused by heat
v 1: make very hot and dry; "The heat scorched the countryside"
[syn: sear]
2: become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent
over the flames" [syn: sear, singe]
3: destroy completely by or as if by fire; "The wildfire
scorched the forest and several homes"; "the invaders
scorched the land"
4: 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: char, blacken]
5: become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry
conditions; "The exposed tree scorched in the hot sun"