scorch

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a surface burn
  2. noun a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues
  3. noun a discoloration caused by heat

Etymology

From Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”).

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