scroaches

Verb

scorch (third-person singular simple present scorches, present participle scorching, simple past and past participle scorched)

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
   • Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
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).
   • Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane, shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 289
5. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
   • Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 16:8
6. (transitive) To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.

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