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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : skawrch |
| Phonetic Transcription : skɔrtʃ |
Definition of scorch
Origin :- "to burn superficially or slightly, but so as to change the color or injure the texture," early 14c., perhaps an alteration of scorrcnenn "make dry, parch" (c.1200), of obscure origin, perhaps from Old Norse skorpna "to be shriveled," cognate with Old English scrimman "to shrink, dry up." Or perhaps from Old French escorchier "to strip off the skin," from Vulgar Latin excorticare "to flay," from ex- (see ex-) + Latin cortex (genitive corticis) "cork;" but OED finds this not likely. Scorched earth military strategy is 1937, translation of Chinese jiaotu, used against the Japanese in a bid to stem their advance into China.
- verb burn
- My stars alive, I do b'lieve my bread's beginnin' t' scorch!
- Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
- After a moment he removed it, and gasped with the scorch of the powerful liquor.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- May the Devil scorch that vagabond, if he doesn't do better than the last time!
- Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
- The fiery flame of her wild life seemed to scorch and preserve her.
- Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
- If I had I would use it all to scorch and wither this talking of surrender.
- Extract from : « Strife (First Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
- They must however be carefully watched, for they are soon done, and a few seconds over the proper time will scorch and spoil them.
- Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
- I'll not swear that the back of my eyes did not scorch with hot tears too.
- Extract from : « The Pirate of Panama » by William MacLeod Raine
- To sin in body is to scorch the soul; but to sin in spirit is to consume the soul.
- Extract from : « Sonnie-Boy's People » by James B. Connolly
- It would get hot enough, in fact, to scorch cloth in contact with it.
- Extract from : « The Pirates of Ersatz » by Murray Leinster
- At any rate you ought to have remembered it when Scorch was talking that day.
- Extract from : « A Little Miss Nobody » by Amy Bell Marlowe
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