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scorches

verb , present tense third-person singular of scorch

Synonyms and Antonyms of scorches

1 to burn on the surface

the picnickers kept scorching their marshmallows, deliberately sticking their skewers into the licking flames of the campfire

Synonyms of scorches

chars, sears, singes

Words Related to scorches

fires, ignites, inflames (also enflames), kindles, lights

bakes, cremates, incinerates

scalds, scathes

2 to make dry

weeks of drought had badly scorched the soil

Synonyms of scorches

dehydrates, desiccates, dries, parches, sears

Words Related to scorches

mummifies, shrivels, withers, wizens

air-dries, bakes

Near Antonyms of scorches

bathes, deluges, douses (also dowses), drenches, drowns, floods, inundates, overflows, saturates, soaks, sops, souses, waterlogs

dampens, damps, humidifies, moistens

dips, dunks, submerges, swamps

Antonyms of scorches

hydrates, washes, waters, wets

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