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scorbutic |
scorbutical |
scorbutus |
scorce |
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scorched
| scorched-earth policy
| scorcher
| scorching
| score
| score out
scorched
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective scorched has 2 senses
- scorched(s = adj.all) adust, baked, parched, sunbaked - 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"
- scorched(s = adj.all) Array - having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy; "Sherman's scorched earth policy"
THESAURUS
scorched
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
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