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verb

past tense of singe
as in charred
to burn on the surface the marshmallows got a bit singed over the campfire, but we like them that way

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Recent Examples of singed
Adjective
The finish is kissed with a touch of singed spearmint, lending it excellent freshness alongside the more mature barrel-aging notes of its decade-long repose. Brian Freedman, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 The ground was now full of enormous potholes covered by thin layers of singed plants. Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2024 Polaris Program/John Kraus A white spacecraft, lightly toasted like a marshmallow and smelling of singed metal, fell out of the night sky early on Sunday morning and splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico not all that far from Key West. Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2024 According to the Yonkers Police Department, the singed corpse was located around 2 a.m. after police were notified of a fire under the Oak St. bridge near the city’s western border with Mount Vernon. Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for singed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for singed
Verb
  • Also on offer will be a Vietnamese hollow donut coated in everything seasoning and filled with salmon pastrami and charred scallion cream cheese.
    Meira Gebel, Axios, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Some rooms are visibly charred from the fire, while others appear cluttered and decrepit due to a lack of maintenance over the years.
    Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The exterior of that building, a large commercial and industrial structure, was scorched by the flames but the firefighters managed to keep that adjacent building from become involved in the blaze.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
  • That fire scorched 153,000 acres, destroyed 18,800 structures and killed 85 people.
    Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024

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“Singed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singed. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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