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scorched

/skawrch/US // skɔrtʃ //UK // (skɔːtʃ) //

烧焦了,烧焦的,被烧焦的,烧焦

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly: The collar of the shirt was yellow where the iron had scorched it.
    • : to parch or shrivel with heat: The sun scorched the grass.
    • : to criticize severely.
    • : Machinery. burn.
    • : to destroy by or as if by fire in the path of an invading army's advance.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become scorched: Milk scorches easily.
    • : Informal. to travel or drive at high speed: The car scorched along the highway.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a superficial burn.

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Examples

  • One of the reasons I did that Twitter feed is that I want the truth to come out, all the truth, so I can scorch the earth.

  • And with too little bacon in the pan, not enough fat renders quickly enough and the bacon will scorch.

  • Speculation: The scorch might have been made by radioactivity attendant upon the resurrection.

  • If the scorch on the Shroud is the result of radiation, it could have been radiation that reconstituted the dead body.

  • Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful.

  • Losses, mistakes, discouragements and disappointments scorch with burning blisters the lining of our lives.

  • Sometimes they scorch them off their bodies by means of a lighted stick—a kind office which Yamba performed for me.

  • There was a second dash upon the stove, and another scorch in the slip.

  • Even with a helper wouldn't you probably scorch the mutton or else burn yourself to death with the hot grease?