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scorched

Speech parts

1. scorched - Adjective

2. scorched - Verb

4. scorched - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Scorch

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls. Eoin Colfer

Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house? George Bernard Shaw

Lift your flowers on bitter stems chickory! Lift them up out of the scorched ground! Bear no foliage but give yourself wholly to that! Strain under them you bitter stems that no beast eats - and scorn greyness! William Carlos Williams

The literature of former days is like watching a fire from across the water; in present-day literature, the author himself is being scorched by the fire and he is bound to feel it deeply, and when he begins to feel it deeply, he is bound to take part in the social struggle. Lu Xun

December, herald of destruction, takes you on a long stroll through the black torsos of trees and leaves scorched in autumn's fire,as if to say: so much then for your secrets and your treasures, the fervent trill of small birds, the promises of summer months. Adam Zagajewski

He who goes to the blacksmith's shop comes home with scorched clothes. Afghan Proverb

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