scorching
- adjective
- /ˈskɔːrʧɪŋ/
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abrasador
- They go out in the daytime and they hunt down animals in the scorching sun.
They go out in the daytime and they hunt down animals in the scorching sun.
- They go out in the daytime and they hunt down animals in the scorching sun.
- Like as I mentioned in the very beginning, the whole like smoking hot, scorching hot kind of thing.
- Who doesn't like scorching hot knives, right?
Examples
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Beside him, in the midst of the scorching heat are two buckets.
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The late afternoon is more scorching than ever, even in Jill's shady backyard.
Fiction book (1996) -
May is, and by the time summer rolls around in a few months, it's going to be scorching heat, sky high humidity and ridiculous pest population.
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The scorching sun made it impossible to stay outside for long.
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During the scorching summer days, we usually stay indoors with the air conditioning on.
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He complained about the scorching heat while jogging in the afternoon.
Synonyms
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1.0
Having a high temperature and able to burn your skin
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3.6
Very hot and like burning flames
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4.1
So warm it glows red
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3.4
Very hot and making a hissing sound
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5.8
Extremely hot, like strong sun that can burn skin
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4.8
Weather that is very hot and humid makes you sweat and feel uncomfortable
Very hot and likely to burn the skin
A very hot burning pain that hurts a lot
Very hot and able to burn skin
Very hot, like the heat inside an oven
Very hot, with high temperature or strong spice
Antonyms
How Hot
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scorching comes from the old verb scorch, which meant 'to burn' or 'to char'. Imagine the sun or fire so strong it almost burns things, and that is why 'scorching' now means very hot.