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SCORCH, v.t.

1. To burn superficially; to subject to a degree of heat that changes the color of a thing, or both the color and texture of the surface. Fire will scorch linen or cotton very speedily in extremely cold weather.

2. To burn; to affect painfully with heat. Scorched with the burning sun or burning sands of Africa.

SCORCH, v.i. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

Scatter a little mungy straw and fern among your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.
1913 Definition
Scorch (scorch)
v. t.(skôrch)
Scorch
[imp. *** p. p. Scorched (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Scorching.] [OE. scorchen, probably akin to scorcnen] cf. Norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skrökka
  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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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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