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# scorched

«scorched» in Mova's school dictionary: **burnt a little on the surface, turned brown or black by heat** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (scorched); past form of the verb scorch (scorch, scorches, scorched, scorching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Scorched means burnt a little on the surface, turned brown or black by heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorched/#m1)

2) Scorched means dried up by the hot sun, like grass in a heatwave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorched/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and science: scorched earth after a fire, scorched grass in summer, scorched cooking. Phrases: «scorched grass», «scorched earth», «sun-scorched».

### examples

- The lawn was scorched and brown after the heatwave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorched/#x1)
- The cake was scorched on top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorched/#x2)
- We walked across the scorched ground after the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorched/#x3)
- His shirt had a scorched mark from the iron. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorched/#x4)
- Scorched leaves fell from the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorched/#x5)
- The desert lay scorched under the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorched/#x6)
- Their breath scorched the herbage before them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorched/#x7)

### note

Past form of scorch, used as an adjective. Scorched means damaged on the outside only; burnt can mean destroyed.

### In the corpora

- [Her heart raced, her dog hid under the bed for a whole day, and the porch boards were scorched.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/6/)
- [Her heart raced, her dog hid under the bed for a whole day, and the porch boards were scorched.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church/4/)
- [Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.169/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scorched» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scorched/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.