'Scorching' definitions:
Definition of 'scorching'
(from WordNet)
adverb
Capable of causing burns; "it was scorching hot"
adjective
Hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface; "scorching heat"
Definition of 'Scorching'
From: GCIDE
- Scorch \Scorch\ (sk[^o]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scorched; p. pr. & vb. n. Scorching.] [OE. scorchen, probably akin to scorcnen; cf. Norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skr["o]kka, to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. skr[*a]kkla to wrinkle (see Shrug); but perhaps influenced by OF. escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F. ['e]corcher, 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[`e]d air Never scorch thy tresses fair. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat. [1913 Webster]
- Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire. [1913 Webster]
- Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. --Rev. xvi. 8. [1913 Webster]
- The fire that scorches me to death. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scorching'
From: GCIDE
- Scorching \Scorch"ing\, a.
- 1. Burning; parching or shriveling with heat. [1913 Webster]
- 2. sufficiently hot to cause scorching. [PJC] -- {Scorch"ing*ly}, adv. -- {Scorch"ing*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scorching'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- ardent,
- baking,
- biting,
- bitter,
- blazing,
- blistering,
- boiling,
- branding,
- broiling,
- burning,
- burning hot,
- calcination,
- canicular,
- carbonization,
- caustic,
- cauterization,
- cautery,
- cineration,
- combustion,
- concremation,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- cracking,
- cremation,
- critical,
- cupellation,
- cutting,
- deflagration,
- destructive distillation,
- distillation,
- distilling,
- ebullient,
- excoriating,
- fanatic,
- feverish,
- fiery,
- flaming,
- flushed,
- grilling,
- hard-core,
- harsh,
- heated,
- hellish,
- hot,
- hot as fire,
- hot as hell,
- hotheaded,
- incineration,
- incisive,
- inflamed,
- keen,
- like a furnace,
- like an oven,
- madcap,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- overheated,
- overwarm,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- parching,
- passionate,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- piping hot,
- pyrolysis,
- red-hot,
- refining,
- roasting,
- scalding,
- scathing,
- scorification,
- searing,
- seething,
- self-immolation,
- sharp,
- simmering,
- singeing,
- sizzling,
- sizzling hot,
- smelting,
- smoking hot,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- sudorific,
- suttee,
- sweating,
- sweaty,
- sweltering,
- sweltry,
- tart,
- the stake,
- thermogenesis,
- toasting,
- torrid,
- totally committed,
- trenchant,
- tropical,
- vesication,
- vituperative,
- white-hot,
- withering,
- zealous