'Scorched' definitions:

Definition of 'scorched'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats" [syn: adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked]
adjective
Having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy; "Sherman's scorched earth policy"

Definition of 'Scorched'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Summer drouth or sing[`e]d air Never scorch thy tresses fair. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat. [1913 Webster]
  • Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire. [1913 Webster]
  • Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. --Rev. xvi. 8. [1913 Webster]
  • The fire that scorches me to death. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'scorched'

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