singe

Plural: singes

Noun

a surface burn
A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

Verb

Verb Forms: singed, singeing, singes

To burn slightly or superficially; to scorch.
burn superficially or lightly
- "I singed my eyebrows"
become superficially burned
- "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"
To burn slightly.
To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.
Obsolete form of sing.

Examples

The hot streak almost seemed to singe the edges of the Words With Friends board.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English sengen, from Old English senġan, sænċġan (“to singe, burn slightly, scorch, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *sangijan (“to burn, torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *senk- (“to burn”). Cognate with West Frisian singe, sinzje (“to singe”), Saterland Frisian soange (“to singe”), Dutch zengen (“to singe, scorch”), German Low German sengen (“to singe”), German sengen (“to singe, scorch”), Icelandic sangur (“singed, burnt, scorched”).

Synonyms

scorch, sear, swinge

Scrabble Score: 6

singe: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
singe: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
singe: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

singe: valid Words With Friends Word