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scorch

Pronunciation: (skôrch), [key]
—v.t.
1. to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly: The collar of the shirt was yellow where the iron had scorched it.
2. to parch or shrivel with heat: The sun scorched the grass.
3. to criticize severely.
4. Mach.burn¹ (def. 23).
5. to destroy (crops, towns, etc.) by or as if by fire in the path of an invading army's advance.

—v.i.
1. to become scorched: Milk scorches easily.
2. Informal.to travel or drive at high speed: The car scorched along the highway.

—n.
a superficial burn.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

scorbutic

scorched-earth policy

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