Definitions for scorching

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scorching scorch·ing

Spelling: [skawr-ching]

IPA: /ˈskɔr tʃɪŋ/

Scorching is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 315 anagrams from letters in scorching (ccghinors).

Definitions for scorching

noun

1. a superficial burn.

adjective

1. burning; very hot.
2. caustic or scathing:

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 scorching

First recorded in 1555-65; scorch + -ing²

Examples for scorching

However, the ongoing bloody conflict between Israel and Palestine is apparently still too scorching a hot-button issue to touch.

Then came smoke, the smell of scorching linen, and a cry of horror from Celine.

Cover the fat of the kidney and the back with paper to prevent it from scorching.

Combined with zombie-slaying stunts and the scorching Georgia heat, conditions on set can be grueling.

Of course there is high-volume, scorching human vanity at large here.

Words can give no idea of the scorching, blinding heat this August afternoon.

He was still looking at her and tears were scorching his eyes.

Sure, all of these folks share healthy egos and a scorching ambition, but come on, we are talking about American politics here.

Scorpio Rising by R.G. Vliet One of the most scorching, incandescent romances ever.

My suffering was horrible; my tears were flowing, scorching and bitter.