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present tense third-person singular of scorch
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1
to burn on the surface
- the picnickers kept scorching their marshmallows, deliberately sticking their skewers into the licking flames of the campfire
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2
to make dry
- weeks of drought had badly scorched the soil
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“Scorches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scorches. Accessed 26 Jan. 2022.
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