Definitions for scorches

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Spelling: [skawrch]

IPA: /skɔrtʃ/

Scorches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in scorches (ccehorss).

Definitions for scorches

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 scorches

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

Examples for scorches

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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