Definitions for singes

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singes singe

Spelling: [sinj]

IPA: /sɪndʒ/

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

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in singes (eginss).

Definitions for singes

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 singes

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

Examples for singes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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