'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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adust,
- aggravated,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- baked,
- blistered,
- broken,
- burned,
- burnt,
- burnt-up,
- burst,
- busted,
- checked,
- chipped,
- consumed,
- consumed by fire,
- corky,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- cut,
- damaged,
- dehydrated,
- desiccated,
- deteriorated,
- dried,
- dried-up,
- embittered,
- evaporated,
- exacerbated,
- exsiccated,
- gutted,
- harmed,
- hurt,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- in bits,
- in pieces,
- in shards,
- incinerated,
- injured,
- irritated,
- lacerated,
- mangled,
- mummified,
- mutilated,
- parched,
- pyrographic,
- pyrolyzed,
- rent,
- ruptured,
- scalded,
- sear,
- seared,
- sere,
- shattered,
- shriveled,
- singed,
- slashed,
- slit,
- smashed,
- split,
- sprung,
- sun-dried,
- sunbaked,
- sunburned,
- the worse for,
- torn,
- weakened,
- weazened,
- wind-dried,
- withered,
- wizened,
- worse,
- worse off,
- worsened