adj
Meaning 1
Dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
scorched
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verb
Meaning 2
simple past and past participle of scorch
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Sherman's scorched earth policy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a vast desert all adust
- land lying baked in the heat
- parched soil
- the earth was scorched and bare
- sunbaked salt flats
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: adust, baked, parched, sunbaked
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: обгорен (obgoren) — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Bulgarian: изгорен (izgoren) — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Finnish: palanut — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- French: brûlé — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- German: verbrannt — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Hindi: संतप्त (santapt) — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Hungarian: megperzselődött — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Hungarian: megperzselt — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Hungarian: megpörkölődött — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Italian: adusto — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Italian: riarso — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Italian: brullo — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Italian: bruciato — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Italian: bruciacchiato — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Latin: adustus — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Māori: tūpākākā — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Spanish: quemado — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Spanish: chamuscado — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Swedish: bränd — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat
- Ottoman Turkish: سوخته (suhte) — dried, damaged, burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat