scorched as an adjective: - 1
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scorched
adjective
1 scorched
Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight:
— The earth was scorched and bare.
synonyms: adust, baked, parched, sunbaked.
2 scorched
Having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy.
Moby thesaurus: adust, aggravated, ashen, ashy, baked, blistered, broken, burned, burnt, burnt-up, burst, busted, checked, chipped, consumed, consumed by fire, corky, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, dehydrated, desiccated, deteriorated, dried, dried-up, embittered, evaporated, exacerbated, exsiccated, gutted, harmed, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, incinerated, injured, irritated, lacerated, mangled, mummified, mutilated, parched, pyrographic, pyrolyzed, rent, ruptured, scalded, sear, seared, sere, shattered, shriveled, singed, slashed, slit, smashed, split, sprung, sun-dried, sunbaked, sunburned, the worse for, torn, weakened, weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizened, worse, worse off, worsened ... show more.
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