singe

Speech parts

1. singe - Noun

2. singe - Verb

Meaning

To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.

To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.

To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.

A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

scorch sear swinge cook kindle brown fry frizzle fire grill char scald heat destroy brand
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Antonyms

reduce dark screen cold delay WET
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Hypernyms

char burn sear blacken scorch combust

Phrases with the word

singe the hair of a brass monkey

Derivatives

SingEd singeing

Anagrams

Segni sengi Gines Isneg Sieng Signe

Examples

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. William Shakespeare

At midnight on the Emperor's pavement flit Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit, Nor storm disturbs, flames begotten of flame, Where blood-begotten spirits come And all complexities of fury leave, Dying into a dance, An agony of trance, An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve. William Butler Yeats

my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames Source: Internet

I singed my eyebrows Source: Internet

Natural fiber will singe rather than melt or burn readily, and flame-retardant fiber generally has a very high melting point and is intrinsically non-flammable. Source: Internet

When natural hair-type fibers are burned, they tend to singe and have a smell of burnt hair; this is because many, as human hair, are protein-derived. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Singaraja Singareni singback singe the hair of a brass monkey singed cat singeing