[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

scorch \scorch\ sk^orch, v. t. imp.  p. p. scorched; p.
   pr.  vb. n. scorching. oe. scorchen, probably akin to
   scorcnen; cf. norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skr"okka,
   to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. sw. skrakkla to
   wrinkle see shrug; but perhaps influenced by of.
   escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, f.
   'ecorcher, ll. excorticare; l. ex from + cortex, -icis,
   bark cf. cork; because the skin falls off when scorched.
   1. to burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface
      of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color
      and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.
      1913 webster

            summer drouth or sing`ed air
            never scorch thy tresses fair.        --milton.
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   2. to affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up
      with heat; to affect as by heat.
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            lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
                                                  --prior.
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   3. to burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
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            power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
                                                  --rev. xvi. 8.
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            the fire that scorches me to death.   --dryden.
      1913 webster
see also:
scorched scorching shrug cork 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

scorched
     adj 1: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast
            desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat";
            "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare";
            "sunbaked salt flats" syn: adust, baked, parched,
             sunbaked
     2: having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable
        by an enemy; "sherman's scorched earth policy"
     3: damaged or discolored by superficial burning:"the scorched
        blouse tore easily"
see also:
adust baked parched sunbaked 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

75 moby thesaurus words for "scorched":
   adust, aggravated, ashen, ashy, baked, blistered, broken, burned,
   burnt, burnt-up, burst, busted, checked, chipped, consumed,
   consumed by fire, corky, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, dehydrated,
   desiccated, deteriorated, dried, dried-up, embittered, evaporated,
   exacerbated, exsiccated, gutted, harmed, hurt, impaired, imperfect,
   in bits, in pieces, in shards, incinerated, injured, irritated,
   lacerated, mangled, mummified, mutilated, parched, pyrographic,
   pyrolyzed, rent, ruptured, scalded, sear, seared, sere, shattered,
   shriveled, singed, slashed, slit, smashed, split, sprung,
   sun-dried, sunbaked, sunburned, the worse for, torn, weakened,
   weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizened, worse, worse off,
   worsened

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