scorch

(Inglese)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A slight or surface burn.
2. (countable, uncountable) A discolouration caused by heat.
3. (countable, uncountable) Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.

Verb

1. (transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
2. (transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
3. (ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed
4. (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
5. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
6. (transitive) To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
7. (colloquial, dated, intransitive) To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/skɔːtʃ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: scorchen

In summary

From Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”).

Concetti

bruciare

scottare

bruciacchiare

scottatura

bruciatura

bruciacchiatura

ardere

strinatura

abbronzare

incendiare

grigliare

incenerire

fiammeggiare

scottarsi

arrostire

strinare

fare tabula rasa

imbrunimento

abbruciacchiare

sinonimi

burn

singe

sear

parch

char

roast

broil

scald

toast

blacken

burn down

cauterise

fire

🔥

wither

bake

warm

☀️

torch

heat

burn up

fry

dry up

dry

swinge

revile

scratch

clobber

clapperclaw

chide

bring up

comb

bite

chastise

brand

cauterize

haze

blow up

berate

barbecue

catch fire

get at

cant

blow

get after

glow

grill

growl

call down

fritter away

heat up

blaze

Traduzioni

roussir

chamuscar

brûlure

versengen

brûler

kavrulmak

bruler

quemar

verbrennen

verzengen

Brandfleck

carboniser

quemadura

abrasar

écorcher