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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Dictionary Results for scorching:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
scorching
    adv 1: capable of causing burns; "it was scorching hot"
    adj 1: hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface; "scorching
           heat"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scorch \Scorch\ (sk[^o]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scorched; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Scorching.] [OE. scorchen, probably akin to
   scorcnen; cf. Norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skr["o]kka,
   to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. skr[*a]kkla to
   wrinkle (see Shrug); but perhaps influenced by OF.
   escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F.
   ['e]corcher, LL. excorticare; L. ex from + cortex, -icis,
   bark (cf. Cork); because the skin falls off when scorched.]
   1. 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.
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            Summer drouth or sing[`e]d air
            Never scorch thy tresses fair.        --Milton.
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   2. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up
      with heat; to affect as by heat.
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            Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
                                                  --Prior.
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   3. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
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            Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
                                                  --Rev. xvi. 8.
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            The fire that scorches me to death.   --Dryden.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scorching \Scorch"ing\, a.
   1. Burning; parching or shriveling with heat.
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   2. sufficiently hot to cause scorching.
      [PJC] -- Scorch"ing*ly, adv. -- Scorch"ing*ness, n.
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