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bescorching

bescorching is the present participle and gerund of bescorch.

Meaning of bescorch

Verb

bescorch (third-person singular simple present bescorches, present participle bescorching, simple past and past participle bescorched)

  1. (transitive) To scorch about, around, or all over; scorch completely.
    • Tis like the bursting of the desert stream When to the field, with sultry drought bescorch'd, Between its echoing rocks it rolls its way.1817, Ossian, The poems of Ossian

Questions about bescorching

What is bescorching the present participle and gerund of?
Bescorching is the present participle and gerund of bescorch.

Words near bescorching in the dictionary

  1. besceptered
  2. besceptred
  3. bescorch
  4. bescorched
  5. bescorches
  6. bescorching
  7. bescorn
  8. bescorned
  9. bescorning
  10. bescorns
  11. Bescot

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