scorch.
A slight or surface burn.
Meaning & usage
A slight or surface burn.
A discolouration caused by heat.
Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”).
To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
(To cause) to become scorched or singed
To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”).
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