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scorched

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adjective
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As an adjective, scorched means dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.

Meanings of scorched

2 meanings

adjective

  1. Dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.

  2. Having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy

    “Sherman's scorched earth policy”

verb

Simple past tense and past participle of scorch

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

adjective: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
adustbakedparchedsunbaked

Words that rhyme with scorched

torched

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