verb
- to burn the surface of something with heat, causing it to become brown or black
- to become burned or dried up by heat
- to move very fast
Usage: informal
noun
- a mark or area of damage caused by burning
Examples
- The iron was too hot and scorched my shirt.
- The grass scorched in the summer heat.
- Don’t let the cookies scorch in the oven.
- The car scorched down the highway at 90 mph.
- There was a brown scorch on the wooden table.
- The drought scorched the farmland.
- She scorched past the other runners in the final lap.