SCORCH

vi to burn or be burnt.

2. scorch ·vi to be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

3. scorch ·vt to burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

4. scorch ·vt to affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.

5. scorch ·add. ·vi to ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed;

— applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. .

6. scorch ·vt to burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.