Front | scorch |
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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." All forms of 'scorch' will appear on average once every 844 pages. scorch scorched scorcher scorching |
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