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scorching 音標拼音: [sk'ɔrtʃɪŋ] a. 灼熱的,激烈的 灼熱的,激烈的 scorching adv 1: capable of causing burns; " it was scorching hot" adj 1: hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface; " scorching heat" Scorch \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] Summer drouth or sing[` e] d air Never scorch thy tresses fair. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat. [ 1913 Webster] Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires. -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire. [ 1913 Webster] Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. -- Rev. xvi. 8. [ 1913 Webster] The fire that scorches me to death. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster]
Scorching \ Scorch" ing\, a. 1. Burning; parching or shriveling with heat. [ 1913 Webster] 2. sufficiently hot to cause scorching. [ PJC] -- { Scorch" ing* ly}, adv. -- { Scorch" ing* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 112 Moby Thesaurus words for " scorching": acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, ardent, baking, biting, bitter, blazing, blistering, boiling, branding, broiling, burning, burning hot, calcination, canicular, carbonization, caustic, cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, concremation, corroding, corrosive, cracking, cremation, critical, cupellation, cutting, deflagration, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, ebullient, excoriating, fanatic, feverish, fiery, flaming, flushed, grilling, hard- core, harsh, heated, hellish, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, hotheaded, incineration, incisive, inflamed, keen, like a furnace, like an oven, madcap, mordacious, mordant, overheated, overwarm, oxidation, oxidization, parching, passionate, penetrating, piercing, piping hot, pyrolysis, red- hot, refining, roasting, scalding, scathing, scorification, searing, seething, self- immolation, sharp, simmering, singeing, sizzling, sizzling hot, smelting, smoking hot, stabbing, stinging, sudorific, suttee, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, tart, the stake, thermogenesis, toasting, torrid, totally committed, trenchant, tropical, vesication, vituperative, white- hot, withering, zealous
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