scorched English

Meaning scorched meaning

What does scorched mean?

scorched

— adjective (= adust, baked, parched, sunbaked) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight a vast desert all adust land lying baked in the heat parched soil the earth was scorched and bare sunbaked salt flats

— adjective having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy Sherman's scorched earth policy

Synonyms scorched synonyms

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scorched English » English

burnt

burned

singed

parched

charred

baked

adust

sunbaked

fire

consumed by fire

conflagration

blazing

become scorched

sunburnt

sun-scorched

sun-burnt

sun-baked

signed

inflamed

heated

filthy

dried-out

dirty

dirt

dehydrated

crispy

coke

catch fire

burnt-out

burned-over

burned-out

bone-dry

bone dry

boil down

afflicted