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Scorch :: Scorch (v. t.) 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..

Scorch :: Scorch (v. t.) To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire..

Torrid :: Torrid (a.) Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.

Adust :: Adust (a.) Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.

Parch :: Parch (v. t.) To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn..

Tinder :: Tinder (n.) Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen..

Parch :: Parch (v. i.) To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry.

Burnt :: Burnt (p. p. & a.) Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun..

Scorch :: Scorch (v. t.) To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat..

Brown :: Brown (v. t.) To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour..

Sear :: Sear (a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively..

Adust :: Adust (a.) Inflamed or scorched; fiery.

Burn :: Burn (v. i.) To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat..

Seared :: Seared (a.) Scorched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences..

Scorching :: Scorching (a.) Burning; parching or shriveling with heat.

Swore :: Sweal (v. t.) To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair..

Torrefy :: Torrefy (v. t.) To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores..

Parching :: Parching (a.) Scorching; burning; drying.

Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass..

Scorched :: Scorched (imp. & p. p.) of Scorc.

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