Scorched

Definitions: Scorched

Scorched

Adjective

1. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats".

2. Having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy; "Sherman's scorched earth policy".

3. Damaged or discolored by superficial burning:"the scorched blouse tore easily".

Date "scorched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Scorched

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Term applied to grapes spoiled by too much heat during ripening. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Scorched

Synonyms: adust (adj), baked (adj), parched (adj), sunbaked (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Scorched

English words defined with "scorched": adust ♦ baked ♦ parched ♦ sunbaked. (references)

Etymologies containing "scorched": steak. (references)

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Modern Usage: Scorched

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Scorched Earth (1942) Scorched Wings (1916)
Song Titles	Scorched Earth Day (performing artist: The Foremen)
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Commercial Usage: Scorched

Domain	Title
Books	Apartheid's Landscape and Ideas: A Scorched Soul (reference) Scorched Earth (reference) Scorched Earth: Able Team No. 13 (reference) Scorched Earth: The Destroyer (reference) Scorched Wood People (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Exosquad: Veil of Doom - Scorched Venus and Sabotage (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Scorched Blood: The Remix Ep [EP] (reference) Scorched Earth [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Panzer General 3: Scorched Earth (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Photo Album: Scorched

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	View of the ship's forward portion, probably taken soon after she had been used as a target during the July 1946 Operation "Crossroads" atomic bomb tests. Note test structure on her bow and the apparently scorched condition of her paint.Credit: NAVY.		Ruins of S.P.deM. railroad depot and scorched coach, Naco, Sonora, Mexico; Lieut. Soliz(?) in foreground.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Use in Literature: Scorched

Title	Author	Quote
Three Voices	Carroll, Lewis	When, at high Noon, the blazing sky Scorched in his head each haggard eye, Then keenest rose his weary cry.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Scorched

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Angola	There were reports that army units engaged in a scorched earth policy, burning villages and killing civilians. (references)
	Afghanistan	The conflict leading up to the fall of Taloqan in September 2000 displaced 60,000 to 75,000 persons, but many families quickly returned once it became clear that the Taliban was not following its scorched earth policy of previous years. (references)
Political Economy	Sudan	The Government and government-associated forces have implemented a scorched earth policy along parts of the oil pipeline and around some key oil facilities. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Scorched

"Scorched" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 39.10% of the time. "Scorched" is used about 133 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	39.1%	52	47,145
Lexical Verb (past tense)	32.33%	43	52,181
Lexical Verb (past participle)	27.82%	37	56,631
Noun (proper)	0.75%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	133	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Scorched

Expressions using "scorched": be scorched ♦ get scorched ♦ scorched earth ♦ scorched earth policy. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "scorched": scorched-earth, scorched-earth policy, scorched-looking.
	Ending with "scorched": sun-scorched.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scorched

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
scorched	678
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scorched earth game	40
1.5 earth scorched	23
download earth free scorched	21
2000 earth scorched	20
downloads earth scorched	13
scorched tank	13
earth policy scorched	12
movie scorched	12
3d earth scorched	10
scorched planet	9
earth free scorched	8
1.5 download earth scorched	8
3d scorched	7
home.stny.lrun.com scorched	7
2000 scorched	6
earth free game scorched	6
scorched earth share ware	5
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Modern Translations: Scorched

Language		Translations for "scorched"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i djegur (baked, burnt, languishing, scalded). (various references)

Arabic		‏مشاط. (various references)

Bulgarian		обгорен (baked, seared). (various references)

Chinese		�"� (dry), 烧焦 (Charred, Charring, scorch, scorching, Singed, Singeing), 糊 (cream, muddled, paste), 焦 (anxious, burnt, worried). (various references)

Czech		popálený. (various references)

Danish		svidning (bark scorch, scorch, searing, sunburn, sunscald, white spot). (various references)

Dutch		verbrand (burnt, heated). (various references)

Finnish		auringonpolttama. (various references)

French		roussi (smell of scorching), échaudé. (various references)

German		verbrannte (deflagrated, incinerated). (various references)

Greek		καμμένη. (various references)

Hebrew		ש�"וף (blasted, empty), חרוך (singed). (various references)

Hungarian		megperzselt. (various references)

Indonesian		hangus (singed). (various references)

Italian		scottati. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		焦土 (scorched earth). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きなくさい (burning or scorched smell, imminent military action, suspicious), しょうどせ�"じゅつ (scorched-earth strategy), しょうど (illumination, scorched earth), いりつく (to be scorched, to boil down). (various references)

Korean		그을리�" (seared, Sooted). (various references)

Manx		lostit (burned, burnt up), losht (bakestone, baking stone, burned, burnt up), lommanit (bared with the wind, blighted), fowanit (blasted, blasted as plants, blighted), daahjit (cauterized, charred, singed). (various references)

Pig Latin		orchedscay

Portuguese		cacho de videira, afarbado. (various references)

Romanian		pãlit (pale, sun-burnt, withered), ars (burnt, diddled, grieved, hot, withered). (various references)

Russian		спаленный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		spaljen (adust, burned, burnt). (various references)

Spanish		asurado. (various references)

Swedish		värmeskada (heat injury). (various references)

Turkish		yakılmış, alazlanmış. (various references)

Ukranian		випалений (adust, kiln-dried). (various references)

Vietnamese		chính sách vườn không nh� trống (scorched-earth policy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Scorched

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 4, Verse 6
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Hliou de anateilantoV ekaumatisqh kai dia to mh ecein rizan exhranqh
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et quando exortus est sol exaestuavit et eo quod non haberet radicem exaruit
Old English	990	West Saxon	þa hit up-eode syo sunne hit for-swælde.& hit for-scranc. for þam hit writtrume (sic)næfde.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And whanne the sunne roos vp, it welewide for heete, and it driede vp, for it hadde no roote.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	But as sone as the sunne was vp it caught heet and because it had not rotynge wyddred awaye.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	But when the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root, it became dry and dead.
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Matched Bible Translations: Scorched

Language	Mark Chapter 4, Verse 6
Bulgarian	�"руги паднаха на канаристо място, гдето нямаше много пръст, и скоро поникнаха, защото нямаше дълбока почва;
Cebuano	ug unya sa pagsubang sa Adlaw, kini nalawos; ug kay wala may gamut, kini nalaya.
Chinese	日 � � 出來一曬、 � 為 �' 有 � � 、就枯乾了。
Croatian	Ali kad ogranu sunce, izgorje; i jer nemaše korijenja, osuši se.
Danish	Og da Solen kom op, blev det svedet af, og fordi det ikke havde Rod, visnede det.
Dutch	Maar als de zon opgegaan was, zo is het verbrand geworden, en omdat het geen wortel had, zo is het verdord.
Finnish	Mutta auringon noustua se paahtui, ja kun sillä ei ollut juurta, niin se kuivettui.
French	mais, quand le soleil parut, elle fut brûlée et sécha, faute de racines.
Gaelic	`S nuair a dh` eirich a ghrian, shearg e; `s bho nach robh friamh aige, shearg e as.
German	Da nun die Sonne aufging, verwelkte es, und dieweil es nicht Wurzel hatte verdorrte es.
Haitian Creole	Men, lè solèy la chofe, li boule ti plant yo. Yo cheche paske rasen yo pa t' fon.
Hungarian	Mikor pedig fölkelt a nap, elsûle, és mivelhogy nem volt gyökere, elszárada.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	tetapi waktu matahari naik, tunas-tunas itu mulai layu kemudian kering dan mati karena akarnya tidak masuk cukup dalam.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Akan tetapi ketika matahari naik, layulah ia, lalu keringlah, sebab tiada berakar.
Italian	ma quando si levò il sole, restò bruciata e, non avendo radice, si seccò.
Korean	해 가 돋 은 후 에 터 � � 서 뿌 리 가 없 으 므 로 말 랐 �
Latvian	Un kad uzlçca saule, tâ novîta un nokalta, tâpçc, ka tai nebija saknes.
Maori	A, no te whitinga o te ra, ngaua iho; a, no te mea kahore he putake, memenge noa iho.
Modern Greek	και οτε ανετειλεν ο ηλιος εκαυματισθη, και επειδη δεν ειχε ριζαν εξηρανθη.
Norwegian	og da solen gikk op, blev det avsvidd, og da det ikke hadde rot, visnet det.
Portuguese	mas, saindo o sol, queimou-se; e, porque não tinha raiz, secou-se.
Rumanian	dar, cknd a rqsqrit soarele, s`a pqlit; wi, pentrucq n`avea rqdqcinq, s`a uscat.
Russian	ЛПЗ�"Б ЦЕ ЧЪПЫМП УПМО�"Е, ХЧСМП Й, ЛБЛ ОЕ ЙНЕМП ЛПТОС, ЪБУПИМП.
Shuar	Tura etsa etsantar Sukuám kankape Atsá asamtai Káararmai.
Spanish	Y cuando salió el sol se quemó, y porque no tenía raíces se secó.
Swahili	Jua lilipochomoza, zikachomeka; na kwa kuwa mizizi yake haikuwa na nguvu, zikanyauka.
Swedish	men när solen hade gått upp, förbrändes det, och eftersom det icke hade någon rot, torkade det bort.
Thai	แต่เมื่อแ�"�"จั�" แ�"�"ก็แผ�"เผา และเพราะรากไม่มี จึงเหี่ยวไป
Ukrainian	а як сонце зійшло то зів'яло, і, коріння не мавши, усохло.
Uma	Kamorani' -na eo, molaju-imi duu' -na bangi, apa' uma monala rali' -na.
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Derivations & Misspellings: Scorched

Derivations
	Words ending with "scorched": bescorched. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Scorched" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schochet. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Scorched"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "scorched" (pronounced skô"rkht)
4	-ô" r kh t	torched.
3	-r kh t	arched, marched, parched, starched.
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Anagrams: Scorched

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-h-o-r-s"
	-2 letters: chords, chored, chores, codecs, coders, coshed, cosher, credos, decors, hordes, horsed, ochers, ochred, ochres, reshod, schrod, scorch, scored, shored, soccer.
	-3 letters: ceros, chord, chore, chose, codec, coder, codes, coeds, cords, cored, cores, corse, cosec, credo, crocs, decor, decos, doers, doser, echos, herds, heros, hoers, horde, horse, hosed, ocher, ochre, redos, resod, rosed, score, scrod, secco, sherd, shoed, shoer, shore, shred.
	-4 letters: cero, code, cods, coed, cord, core, cors, cosh, croc, deco, docs, doer, does, dore, dors, dose, echo, edhs, eros, herd, hero, hers, hods, hoed, hoer, hoes, hose, odes, ohed, orcs, ores, recs, redo, reds, resh, rhos, rocs, rode, rods, roes, rose, shed, shod, shoe, sord, sore.
	-5 letters: cod, cor, cos, doc, doe, dor, dos, edh, eds, ers, her, hes, hod, hoe, ode, ods, oes, ohs, orc, ore, ors, ose, rec, red, res, rho, roc, rod, roe, sec, ser, she, sod.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-h-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: scrooched.
	+2 letters: bescorched, scrootched.
	+3 letters: archdeacons, archdiocese, dichroscope, dogcatchers.
	+4 letters: archdiocesan, archdioceses, crosschecked, crosshatched, dichroscopes, orchidaceous.
	+5 letters: checkerboards, hydrocrackers.
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