The meaning of SCORCH is to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture. How to use scorch in a sentence.

SCORCH definition: 1. to (cause to) change colour with dry heat, or to burn slightly: 2. (especially of motorcycles…. Learn more.

To scorch is to burn something fiercely, to the point where its surface — your face, prairie grass, a steak on the grill — chars or otherwise changes color. Although scorch usually refers to burning something (whether it's the sun or a blowtorch doing the burning), that's not always the case.

SCORCH meaning: 1. to (cause to) change colour with dry heat, or to burn slightly: 2. (especially of motorcycles…. Learn more.

to destroy (crops, towns, etc.) by or as if by fire in the path of an invading army's advance. Milk scorches easily. The car scorched along the highway. a superficial burn. informal. slang.

SCORCH definition: to burn or become burnt, so as to affect the colour, taste , etc, or to cause or feel... | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

[transitive, intransitive] scorch (something) to become or to make something become dry and brown, especially from the heat of the sun or from chemicals. scorched grass; The leaves will scorch if you water them in the sun. Wildfires have scorched over two million acres of forest.

scorch - become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions; "The exposed tree scorched in the hot sun"

SCORCH meaning: 1 : to burn the surface of (something); 2 : to be burned on the surface

To scorch something means to burn it slightly. The bomb scorched the side of the building. ...scorched black earth. If something scorches or is scorched, it becomes marked or changes color because it is affected by too much heat or by a chemical. The leaves are inclined to scorch in hot sunshine. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.