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
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
The Airport fire, in Orange and Riverside counties, was 95% contained, after destroying 160 structures and scorching about 23,500 acres.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
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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
The Airport fire, in Orange and Riverside counties, was 95% contained, after destroying 160 structures and scorching about 23,500 acres.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 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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Harris campaigned over the weekend Michelle Obama, who launched into a searing critique of the former president.Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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This searing manual deconstructs the subgenre and the process that goes into contributing to it, bringing the study thereof into a whole new era of experimentation and boundary dissolution.Tyler Thier, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2024
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Residents were also instructed to clean and scrub any containers with hot soapy water or bleach to remove any Aedes aegypti eggs and leave them to dry for at least a day.Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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That's a bit hotter than the 2.4% annual rate in September, which was the slowest pace since President Joe Biden’s first full month in office.Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Nov. 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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Currents of molten lava rose and collapsed like thick tongues of muddy ocean water, making a concussive sloshing sound that snapped and boomed.Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
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Train derailment in Kentucky forced evacuation for molten sulfur spill In November 2023, a CSX train derailed in Eastern Kentucky, spilling molten sulfur and forcing the evacuation of a nearby small town over air quality concerns, NBC News reported.Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Scorching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scorching. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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