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- we keep indoors as much as possible during the day so as to avoid the scorching summer heat
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- the picnickers kept scorching their marshmallows, deliberately sticking their skewers into the licking flames of the campfire
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- weeks of drought had badly scorched the soil
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“Scorching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scorching. Accessed 26 Jan. 2022.
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