char 1 of 2

noun

Definition of charnext
British
as in housekeeper
a female domestic servant a busy executive who leaves most of the cooking and cleaning to the char

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verb

as in to scorch
to burn on the surface I'd like my hamburger charred, but not cooked through

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Recent Examples of char
Noun
In East Dallas, Asian fusion and barbecue collide in the best way possible at Loro—think crispy Thai pork ribs, char siu, chicken with gochujang glaze, and smoked shishito pepper queso. — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2026 The resulting bio-char demonstrated a heating value of 29 MJ/kg, meaning that burning 1 kg of the fuel will provide 29 MJ of thermal energy. — New Atlas, 1 July 2026
Verb
Place the rack in the sheet pan under the broiler until the chicken is cooked through and lightly charred, 12-15 minutes. — Kate Williams, AJC.com, 6 July 2026 The Gold Mountain fire northeast of Ouray burned across another 7 square miles overnight and has now charred 25,460 acres with no containment, fire officials said Saturday morning. — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for char
Recent Examples of Synonyms for char
  1. housekeeper
  2. scorch
  3. maid
  4. singe
  5. sear
  6. light
Noun
  • The singer’s guilty plea comes weeks after he was ordered to pay nearly $13 million in damages to his former housekeeper after a dog attack at his home in 2020.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 24 July 2026
  • The film is about a former housekeeper named Marie who, while preparing to celebrate her engagement to the patriarch of the house, is haunted by secrets of her past.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 23 July 2026
Definition of housekeeper
Verb
  • Deadly wildfires scorched a record-breaking swath of the state.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
  • Since sunrise, the hillside has appeared scorched, with firefighters still working to extinguish the fire.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026
Definition of scorch
Noun
  • The maid came into the room and brought me upstairs to a massage room.
    — Abby Ellin, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
  • When the elevator opened on Sonya’s floor, a uniformed maid stood waiting at the apartment’s front door.
    — Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
Definition of maid
Verb
  • Five digital heat settings make temperature adjustment simple, and the ceramic plates are gentle enough to use on any hair type without singeing.
    — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 18 June 2026
  • An angry deity hurled a firebrand at the swallow, singeing away its middle tail feathers.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
Definition of singe
Verb
  • Her thin Indian skirt caught fire searing her panty hose into her flesh, leaving her with third-degree burns over more than half her body.
    — Steve Wasserman, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026
  • After traveling through our atmosphere and heating up, searing through the sky and then crashing through a roof and then a bedroom ceiling, the meteorite broke apart into pieces.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of sear
Verb
  • Strobe lights zigzag across the room and confetti rains down as Ruffin blasts a smoke cannon into the roaring crowd.
    — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 27 July 2026
  • Deer Park’s screen is just a standard rectangle, lit by a single laser digital projector that can’t display the film’s full aspect ratio.
    — Lane Brown, Vulture, 25 July 2026
Definition of light

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“Char.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/char. Accessed 30 Jul. 2026.

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