as in boiling
having a notably high temperature
we keep indoors as much as possible during the day so as to avoid the scorching summer heat
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as in charring
to burn on the surface
the picnickers kept scorching their marshmallows, deliberately sticking their skewers into the licking flames of the campfire
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as in drying
to make dry
weeks of drought had badly scorched the soil
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Recent Examples of scorching
Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
The devastating blaze had reached 99% containment earlier this month after scorching 55,000 acres in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.
—Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
The devastating blaze had reached 99% containment earlier this month after scorching 55,000 acres in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, according to Cal Fire.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
Emperor 1 tolerates heat well, and the dark-purple-red leaves are less prone to scorching.
—Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2024
An unprecedented heat wave is scorching parts of the western United States at the start of October with record-breaking temperatures and lingering excessive heat alerts expected to last into the weekend.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
One of the most common mishaps when cooking is burning your food and/or scorching your pans.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
An October heat wave was set to keep going at full throttle Wednesday after bringing out scorching temperatures — breaking and tying records in some Bay Area cities — on Tuesday.
—Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
Phoenix kicked off October with an unprecedented heat wave as temperatures soared to a scorching 110 degrees on Tuesday, shattering the previous record of 107 set in 2020.
—Skylar Heisey, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024
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Iran was, of course, never going to submit the dissident filmmaker’s scorching indictment of Iranian patriarchy to the Oscars.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
The devastating blaze had reached 99% containment earlier this month after scorching 55,000 acres in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.
—Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
The devastating blaze had reached 99% containment earlier this month after scorching 55,000 acres in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, according to Cal Fire.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
Emperor 1 tolerates heat well, and the dark-purple-red leaves are less prone to scorching.
—Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2024
An unprecedented heat wave is scorching parts of the western United States at the start of October with record-breaking temperatures and lingering excessive heat alerts expected to last into the weekend.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
One of the most common mishaps when cooking is burning your food and/or scorching your pans.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
An October heat wave was set to keep going at full throttle Wednesday after bringing out scorching temperatures — breaking and tying records in some Bay Area cities — on Tuesday.
—Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
Phoenix kicked off October with an unprecedented heat wave as temperatures soared to a scorching 110 degrees on Tuesday, shattering the previous record of 107 set in 2020.
—Skylar Heisey, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024
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One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
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If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
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Larry Kramer's searing indictment of mainstream media and the healthcare establishment in the early years of the AIDS crisis is as powerful as ever.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Dec. 2024
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Le Pen delivered a searing account of the political drama that had consumed the country since June 9th.Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
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During this hot summer in rural Ireland, in a reprieve from her dysfunctional family home, the girl learns care and warmth like she’s never experienced before.Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Research shows wildfires have grown more intense in recent decades, fueled by wildfire weather (hot, dry conditions plus wind) that’s become more frequent — especially in California.Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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At private equity firm TPG, global head of human resources Anna Edwin poised one of the most burning questions for business leaders in thinking through their future talent strategies.Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
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Social media star Hannah Neeleman and her husband Daniel Neeleman are answering fans' most burning question.Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024
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But before that, in a ground floor space that used to be an industrial kitchen, is Barney’s Water Cast 10 (2015), a large sculpture made by pouring molten bronze into a slurry of water and bentonite clay.Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Here, his Water Cast 10 is part modernist abstraction, part wasps’ nest, and part Chinese scholar’s rock made by a crew of people pouring molten copper into a combination of clay and water.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Scorching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scorching. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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