scorch's Usage Examples:

Prolog The woman bore a scorch mark from her chin to her brow.

Mary gave her a scorching look, but said nothing.

If Taurus isn't careful, she may end up in a situation like the sad scenes from television advertisement campaigns warning against the hazards of a single match or tossed cigarette; that is, a "scorched earth".

The flat and round-topped hills (kopjes), which are very numerous on the various plateaus, scarcely afford relief to the eye, which searches the sun-scorched landscape, usually in vain, for running water.

So when the hot sandstorms blow in the lower steppe the scorching heat is carried right up to the foot of the mountains.

She didn't even feel the bruises and scrapes covering her body, but she felt Darian's scorching fingers.

It was they, these soldiers--wounded and unwounded--it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder.

She cast Alex a scorching look.

They now began to feel themselves abandoned not only by man but by God; for an explosion of some of their gunpowder, on the morning of the 8th, by which Catesby and some others were scorched, struck terror into their hearts as a judgment from heaven.

Five minutes later, it returned, scorching her throat on the way out.

Qui-Gon had been on Tatooine for three days, in the scorching heat, with two blazing suns, with a thick poncho over his already thick long sleeved Jedi outfit, and had quite an ordeal on the planet with the podrace and all.

Plants may initially exhibit rapid growth of lush, dark green foliage only to later appear scorched or wilted.

The unreaped corn was scorched and shed its grain.

Synonyms:

sear, sizzle, heat up, heat,

Antonyms:

stay, humorless, sweet, sugary, cool,