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scorchingadjective having a notably high temperaturewe keep indoors as much as possible during the day so as to avoid the scorching summer heat ardent, boiling, broiling, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, piping hot, red, red-hot, roasting, scalding, searing, sultry, superheated, sweltering, torrid, ultrahot, white-hot blazing, glowing, igneous, molten, seething, sizzlingheated, overheated, reheated, warmedsnug, toasty, warm, warmishfeverish, flushed, inflamed(also enflamed)canicular, muggy, steamy, summerlike, summery, tropical algid, arctic, bitter, bone-chilling, cold, freezing, frigid, frozen, glacial, ice-cold, iced, icy chill, chilly, coldish, cool, coolish, nippy, snappyblizzardly, frosty, snowy, subfreezing, subzero, wintry(also wintery)chilled, cooled, refrigerated, unheatedbenumbed, numb, shivering scorchingverbpresent participle of scorchto burn on the surfacethe picnickers kept scorching their marshmallows, deliberately sticking their skewers into the licking flames of the campfire to make dryweeks of drought had badly scorched the soil dehydrating, desiccating, drying, parching, searing dehumidifyingdrainingevaporatingmummifying, shriveling(or shrivelling), withering, wizeningair-drying, baking hydrating, washing, watering, wetting bathing, deluging, dousing(also dowsing), drenching, drowning, flooding, inundating, overflowing, saturating, soaking, sopping, sousing, waterloggingdampening, damping, humidifying, moisteningrehydratingdipping, dunking, submerging, swamping |