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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scorch/skɔːtʃ/
▶verb
- 1 become burnt or cause to become burnt on the surface or edges.
■ (often as adj. scorched) cause to become dried out and withered as a result of extreme heat.
- 2 informal move very fast.
- 1 the burning or charring of the surface of something.
- 2 Botany a form of plant necrosis marked by browning of leaf margins.
– derivatives
scorching adjective,
scorchingly adverb.
scorching adjective,
scorchingly adverb.
– origin ME: perh. rel. to ON skorpna ‘be shrivelled’.
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boiling hot/scorching hot
Her eyes were scorching his face
I'm roasted/roasting under the scorching hot sun!
It's scorching hot outside.
Her eyes were scorching his face
I'm roasted/roasting under the scorching hot sun!
It's scorching hot outside.
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