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To: Scottoo who wrote (31063)4/6/1999 9:21:00 AM
From: jhild  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 43774
 
Here you go, maybe you can expand your vocabulary today:
Main Entry: 1scorch
Pronunciation: 'skorch
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English; akin to Middle English scorcnen, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse skorpna to shrivel up -- more at SHRIMP
Date: 14th century
transitive senses
1 : to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture
2 a : to dry or shrivel with or as if with intense heat : PARCH b : to afflict painfully with censure or sarcasm
3 : DEVASTATE; especially : to destroy (as property of possible use to an advancing enemy) before abandoning -- used in the phrase scorched earth
[or scorched stock price]
intransitive senses
1 : to become scorched
2 : to travel at great and usually excessive speed
3 : to cause intense heat or mental anguish <scorching sun> <scorching fury>
- scorch·ing·ly /'skor-chi[ng]-lE/ adverb