scorch
Burn the surface
Scorch means to burn the surface of something, damaging it with heat without fully consuming it: I scorched my shirt with the iron.
Plants scorch in intense sun or drought, their leaves turning brown and dry.
Scorching heat is oppressively hot.
To scorch is also to move at high speed: The car scorched down the highway.
A scorcher is an extremely hot day.
Make or become dark
- carbonizeConvert to charite through heat
- singeBurn the surface
- sootCarbon from incomplete burning
- cinderCombustion residue fragment
ash · embers · charring · discoloration · smoke · crisp · toast · scald
Burning gas made visible
- igniteStart burning something
- fireCombustion with flames
- blisterFluid-filled skin swelling
- scaldBurn with hot liquid
torch · incinerate · combust · singe · engulf · conflagration · inferno · cremate
blacken
Make or become dark
cinder · ash · embers · charring · discoloration · smoke · crisp · toast · scald · caramelize
flame
Burning gas made visible
scald · torch · incinerate · combust · singe · engulf · conflagration · inferno · cremate · carbonize
shrivel
Contract from dryness
brown · fade · crisp · die-back · dehydrate · curl · yellow · brittle · lifeless · blight
race
Competition of speed
streak · rocket · hurtle · barrel · fly · dash · sprint · bolt · whiz · accelerate
arid
Devoid of water
dehydration · desiccation · dusty · sunbaked · cracked · withered · wilted · fallow · dry · evaporation
sizzle
Sound of frying
roast · sunbaked · blistering · searing · torrid · blazing · parched · heatwave · sunstroke · sultry
- scorching heatIntense, burning temperatures
- scorched earthDestroy all useful resources
- scorched earth policyDestroying resources during withdrawal
- scorching hotExtremely high in temperature
- scorching sunIntensely hot star overhead
- scorch markDiscoloration from excessive heat
scorching, scorched, scorches, scorcher, scorchers, unscorched, scorchingly, scorched earth