2. Verb. (third-person singular of scorch) ¹
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Definition of Scorches
1. scorch [v] - See also: scorch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scorches
Literary usage of Scorches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Whole Country; Or, The Past and Present of the United States, Historical by John Warner Barber, Henry Howe (1861)
"P To escape from a sun which scorches you into these verdant and cool bottoms is
a luxury of itself, which disposes you to relish everything else. ..."
2. The Home Messenger Book of Tested Receipts by Isabella Graham Duffield Stewart, Sally B. Sill, Mary B. Duffield (1878)
"scorches made by over-heated flat irons can be removed from linen by spreading
over the scorched cloth a paste made of the juice pressed from two onions, ..."
3. Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas, I. G. Burnham (1895)
"like cold ice in the fire's heat; and jet the flame of passion which scorches
and consumes me never moves thy heart to any fellow feeling. 6. ..."
4. The Successful Housekeeper: A Manual of Universal Application, Especially by Milon W. Ellsworth, Tinnie Ellsworth (1882)
"... take it down, so that the wind will not blow the starch out. If dampened with
warm water, it will soon be ready to iron. To REMOVE scorches. ..."
5. The Wandering Jew (and Jewess)by R. D. Manning, Eugene Sue by R. D. Manning, Eugene Sue (2003)
"JACQUES Listen to me, if there were a brazier of burning coals within me, I could
not suffer a more devouring flame than that which scorches up my very ..."
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