Definitions for singe

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Spelling: [sinj]

IPA: /sɪndʒ/

Singe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in singe (egins).

Definitions for singe

noun

1. a superficial burn.
2. the act of singeing.

verb (used with object)

1. to burn superficially or slightly; scorch.
2. to burn the ends, projections, nap, or the like, of (hair, cloth, etc.).
3. to subject (the carcass of an animal or bird) to flame in order to remove hair, bristles, feathers, etc.

Origin of singe

before 1000; Middle English sengen (v.), Old English sencgan; cognate with Dutch zengen, German sengen; akin to Old Norse sangr singed, burnt

Examples for singe

Wash and singe the fowl: take off the head and legs, and remove the tendons.

singe and truss your chickens; boil one half and roast the other.

So Obama and the Democrats should spend part of next week dispelling the five myths that have the potential to singe.

singe off the hair and thoroughly cleanse them, removing the toes by scorching.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Bake it as you would cook an angel, and not singe a feather.

The conflagration in Congress is spreading to singe, if not consume, critical decisions across the board.

Her eyes blazed with a fire that seemed about to singe pretense from his soul.

It's worth starving to death on singe and pinard for four months.

Light some writing paper, and singe the hairs from the skin of the turkey.