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scorching

skawr ching

  • v  make very hot and dry
  • v  become superficially burned
  • v  destroy completely by or as if by fire
  • v  burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
  • v  become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions
  • s  hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface
    scorching heat
  • r  capable of causing burns
    it was scorching hot

  • Scientists refer to the planet as a "hot Jupiter" (it's similar to but slightly larger than Jupiter and keeps a much tighter orbit around its sun, ensuring a scorching climate).
  • A scorching portrait of a woman's journey into Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to find her sister, its ingenious trick was to cast, in lieu of professional actors, people who had shared .
  • Long ago, in the fierce and uncouth days of 1920, there was a pen more scorching than other pens, and it was wielded by one of the ablest partisans of those contentious days.
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  • Charles Schumer in News 10NBC
    Unless the administration gets OPEC to increase oil supply, American consumers are going to be in for a scorching summer of $4 gasoline with no relief in sight,Schumer said.
  • Shinzo Abe in International Herald Tribune
    Our fight against terrorism is continuing,Abe said in a speech opening a 62-day extraordinary session of parliament. "Self-defense forces working under the scorching sun of the Indian Ocean is exactly what the world expects as Japan's...
  • President Bush in San Jose Mercury News
    We recognize the extraordinary potential of Africa,Bush said. "In schoolchildren waving flags on dusty roadsides, to nurses caring for their patients at busy clinics, to artisans selling their products in scorching heat, we saw people who...

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