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| scorching | |
| 1. adj. Very hot. |  |
| It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade. | |
| 2. adj. Bitterly sarcastic; scathing; withering. | |
| 3. n. The act or result of something being scorched. | |
| scorch | |
| 1. n. A slight or surface burn. | |
| 2. n. A discolouration caused by heat. | |
| 3. n. (phytopathology) Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi. | |
| 4. v. To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it | |
| 5. v. To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy | |
| 6. v. (To cause) to become scorched or singed | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground) | |
| 8. v. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire. | |
| 9. v. To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway. | |
