Usually means: Burn lightly, causing surface damage.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word scorch:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. scorch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scorch: Merriam-Webster
  3. scorch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scorch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scorch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scorch: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scorch, scorch: Wordnik
  8. scorch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scorch: Wiktionary
  10. scorch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scorch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scorch: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scorch: Dictionary.com
  14. scorch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scorch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scorch (TV series), Scorch (comics), Scorch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scorch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scorch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scorch: Rhymezone
  20. scorch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scorch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. scorch: FreeDictionary.org
  23. scorch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scorch: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scorch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scorch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SCORCH: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scorch, scorch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scorch: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scorched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A slight or surface burn.
noun:  A discolouration caused by heat.
noun:  (phytopathology) Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.
verb:  (transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
verb:  (transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
verb:  (ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed
verb:  (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
verb:  To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
verb:  (transitive) To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.

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