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Scorch·ing, a.
1. Burning; parching or shriveling with heat.
-- Scorch*ing*ly, adv. -- Scorch*ing*ness, n.
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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.
scorching
adj : hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface; "scorching
heat"
adv : capable of causing burns; "it was scorching hot"