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verb (used with object)
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.
Machinery. burn1 (def. 31).
5.
to destroy (crops, towns, etc.) by or as if by fire in the path of an invading army's advance.
verb (used without object)
6.
to become scorched: Milk scorches easily.
7.
Informal. to travel or drive at high speed: The car scorched along the highway.
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Scorches
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
noun
8.
a superficial burn.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
scorch
c.1200, perhaps from O.N. skorpna "to be shriveled," cognate with O.E. scrimman "to shrink, dry up." Or perhaps from O.Fr. escorchier "to strip off the skin," from V.L. excorticare "to flay," from ex- + L. cortex (gen. corticis) "cork;" but OED finds this not likely. Scorcher "very hot day" first attested
EXPAND1874. Scorched earth military strategy is 1937, translation of Chinese jiaotu, used against the Japanese in their advance into China.
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