1. [n]  a discoloration caused by heat
2. [n]  a surface burn
3. [v]  cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun parched the earth"
4. [v]  make very hot and dry; "The heat scorched the countryside"
5. [v]  burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling"
6. [v]  destroy completely by or as if by fire; "The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes"
7. [v]  become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"
8. [v]  censor and criticize sharply and harshly; "scorching remarks"

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1. \Scorch\, v. i.
   To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; --
   applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.] --
   {Scorch"er}, n. [Colloq.]
   

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

3. \Scorch\, v. i.
   1. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
            Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your
            seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.
                                                  --Mortimer.
   2. To burn or be burnt.
            He laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter,
            which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's
            breast, as if it had been red hot.    --Hawthorne.