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Scorch Scorched Burn Skɔːrtʃ V.1烘焦;烧焦 使萎;使估 Meat Black

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Pron [skɔːrtʃ]
Back 【scorch】
v.1烘焦;烧焦 2 使萎;使估
The meat was black and scorched outside but still raw inside.
那块肉外表焦黑,但里面仍是生的。
The grass is scorched by so much hot sunshine in summer.
夏天阳光强烈,以至于草地估萎。
Vocab
scorchburn slightly and superficially so as to affect color

To scorch is to burn something fiercely, to the point where its surface — your face, prairie grass, a steak on the grill — chars or otherwise changes color.

Although scorch usually refers to burning something (whether it's the sun or a blowtorch doing the burning), that's not always the case. An army can scorch an enemy territory — meaning raze everything in sight, without technically setting it on fire. Scorch can also mean to quickly overpower something or somebody, as in: "We're gonna scorch the other team tomorrow."

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