Definitions for scorch

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Spelling: [skawrch]

IPA: /skɔrtʃ/

Scorch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in scorch (cchors).

Definitions for scorch

noun

1. a superficial burn.

verb (used with object)

1. to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly:
2. to parch or shrivel with heat:
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)

1. to become scorched:
2. Informal. to travel or drive at high speed:

Origin of scorch

1400-50; late Middle English scorchen, perhaps blend of scorcnen (Scandinavian; compare Old Norse skorpna to shrivel) and torch¹

Examples for scorch

One of the reasons I did that Twitter feed is that I want the truth to come out, all the truth, so I can scorch the earth.

May the Devil scorch that vagabond, if he doesn't do better than the last time!

They must however be carefully watched, for they are soon done, and a few seconds over the proper time will scorch and spoil them.

And with too little bacon in the pan, not enough fat renders quickly enough and the bacon will scorch.

If the scorch on the Shroud is the result of radiation, it could have been radiation that reconstituted the dead body.

My stars alive, I do b'lieve my bread's beginnin' t' scorch!

After a moment he removed it, and gasped with the scorch of the powerful liquor.

If I had I would use it all to scorch and wither this talking of surrender.

The fiery flame of her wild life seemed to scorch and preserve her.

Speculation: The scorch might have been made by radioactivity attendant upon the resurrection.