scorched

«scorched» in Mova's school dictionary: burnt a little on the surface, turned brown or black by heat — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (scorched); past form of the verb scorch (scorch, scorches, scorched, scorching)

meaning for a pupil

1) Scorched means burnt a little on the surface, turned brown or black by heat. tree →

2) Scorched means dried up by the hot sun, like grass in a heatwave. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and science: scorched earth after a fire, scorched grass in summer, scorched cooking. Phrases: «scorched grass», «scorched earth», «sun-scorched».

examples

• The lawn was scorched and brown after the heatwave. tree →
• The cake was scorched on top. tree →
• We walked across the scorched ground after the fire. tree →
• His shirt had a scorched mark from the iron. tree →
• Scorched leaves fell from the tree. tree →
• The desert lay scorched under the sun. tree →
• Their breath scorched the herbage before them. tree →

note

Past form of scorch, used as an adjective. Scorched means damaged on the outside only; burnt can mean destroyed.

In the corpora

• Her heart raced, her dog hid under the bed for a whole day, and the porch boards were scorched.
• Her heart raced, her dog hid under the bed for a whole day, and the porch boards were scorched.
• Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «scorched» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.