SCORCH


Meaning of SCORCH in English

/skawrch/ , v.t.

1. to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly: The collar of the shirt was yellow where the iron had scorched it.

2. to parch or shrivel with heat: The sun scorched the grass.

3. to criticize severely.

4. Mach. burn 1 (def. 23).

5. to destroy (crops, towns, etc.) by or as if by fire in the path of an invading army's advance.

v.i.

6. to become scorched: Milk scorches easily.

7. Informal. to travel or drive at high speed: The car scorched along the highway.

n.

8. a superficial burn.

[ 1400-50; late ME scorchen, perh. b. scorcnen ( skorpna to shrivel) and TORCH 1 ]

Syn. 1. char, blister. See burn 1 . 3. excoriate, condemn.

Ant. 3. laud.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .