scorching

Plural: scorchings

Verb

• make very hot and dry
• become superficially burned
• destroy completely by or as if by fire
• burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
• become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions
• present participle and gerund of scorch

Adjective Satellite

• hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface
  • "scorching heat"

Adverb

• capable of causing burns
  • "it was scorching hot"

Adj

• Very hot.
• Bitterly sarcastic; scathing; withering.
• Sexy, sexual, attractive.
• Of speed when driving, running, etc.: Very high.

Noun

• The act or result of something being scorched.

Examples

• It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.

Synonyms

blacken, char, scorch, sear, singe

Anagrams of scorching