Synonyms:
scorching
Meaning: hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface; "scorching heat"
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meaning of the word
Synonyms:
scorching
Meaning: capable of causing burns; "it was scorching hot"
Usage examples
He discovered that he had a scorching thirst.
"This has been one of the scorching days," Mr. Holland said.
About mid-day he reached a sandy plain, scorching in the sun.
The days passed, with the scorching heat of the midday sun, and the cool winds of the night.
They wasted o'er a scorching flame The marrow of his bones, But the miller used him worst of all, For he crushed him between two stones.
And supposing he were to do this several times under the heat of a scorching sun, might he not, being an expert, overturn more than one stout personage?
At times of scorching heat, hers must be a regular sybaritic abode, such as eccentric man has sometimes ventured to build under water, with mighty blocks of stone and marble.
The boy had his hands on the scorching wood of a dinghy, his muscles tensed to thrust it into the waters of the cove, when out over the still harbor, jangling in the heat, came a prolonged and piercing scream.
Winterborne had abstractedly taken the poker, and with a wrinkled forehead was ploughing abroad the wood-embers on the broad hearth, till it was like a vast scorching Sahara, with red-hot bowlders lying about everywhere.
Jonesy had struck out at the wall of fire with his helpless little hands, and then, half-crazed by the scorching pain, dropped to the floor and crawled in the opposite direction, just as the professor burst open the door.