scorchingn.

/ˈskɔːtʃɪŋ/

Etymology: < scorch v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action or an act of burning superficially, or of parching or shrivelling up by intense heat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > exposure to injurious heat or fire > scorching

fryingc1290

searing1552

scorching1563

scorch1646

charring1802

grill1842

1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 16 And if..you dout either the coldnes or hotnes of the season, in the scorching or burning of your seedes, then couer your beddes with the chaffe of corne.

1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) v. 22 Those parts of the world which are under..perpetuall scortchings.

1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 73 The excessive Scorchings of this and the two following Months..do frequently indanger the untimely falling both of Blossom and Fruit.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) I. 641 The scorchings of unextinguishable flames and gnawings of the never dying worm.

†b. plural. Fragments detached by scorching. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > fragments detached by scorching

scorchings1607

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > fragments detached by scorching

scorchings1607

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 253 Goates Horne being burned at the end, and the pieces or scorchinges that rise thereof, must be shaken into a new vessell vntill the horne be quite consumed.

1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 59 Then with your Working-knife, or Chizzel, take off the Scorchings to the clean Wood.

2. The action of riding a cycle or driving a motor car at a furious pace.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > at a furious pace

scorching1891

1891 Wheeling 4 Mar. 422 We are..in a strong position to denounce the abuse of ‘scorching’ through inhabited parts of the country.

1898 Daily News 22 July 8/2 Do you ever scorch?—I do not know what you call scorching.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2020).

scorchingadj.¹

/ˈskɔːtʃɪŋ/

Etymology: < scorch v.¹ + -ing suffix².

a. That scorches, burning, withering.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > injuriously > scorching

bristling1561

scorching1563

branding1811

searing1818

swithering1895

1563 A. Neville in B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. F.vi^v The Body dryed by broylyng blase, Of preuy schorchyng Flame.

1628 W. Mure Doomesday 206 There, to the drunkard's parched throate, Justice doth scrotching drought allote, In floods of fire.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 691 How had the World Inhabited, though sinless, more then now, Avoided pinching cold and scorching heate?

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 6 While in the scorching Sun I trace in vain Thy flying footsteps.

1745 Watts' Hymn, ‘How bright these glorious spirits shine’ Hunger and Thirst are felt no more, Nor Suns with scorching Ray.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. vi. 6 He..from his native land resolv'd to go, And visit scorching climes beyond the sea.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues II. 249 Under the heat of a scorching sun.

figurative.1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 87 No more shalt thou..on Gods Altar cast two scorching [1648 scortching] eyes.1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding §294 I have been about to preach upon some smart and scorching portion of the word.1895 Ld. Acton Lect. Study Hist. 59 After looking about for a scorching imprecation, he [Titus Oates] began to call them Tories.

b. transferred. Causing a burning sensation, irritant.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > burning

burninga1475

urent1656

scorching1768

1768 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 8) Thapsia... The deadly Carrot, or scorching Fennel.

c. transferred. Designating a period of excessive sunshine and heat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > hot weather > [adjective] > very

scorching1940

1940 ‘Gun Buster’ Return via Dunkirk ii. xix. 220 It is a pale, steady dawn, breaking with a slight haze that presages another scorching day.

1962 A. Wesker Chips with Everything i. i. 12 This hut..is going to be your home for the next eight scorching weeks.

2. colloquial. Astounding, sensational; licentious, risqué; in Sport, of a shot or hit: exceedingly fast, ‘blistering’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adjective]

wonderlyc893

wonderfula1100

wondera1175

wondersa1300

marvellousc1330

marvela1400

marvelly?a1400

mirablec1429

admirablec1450

marvellablec1450

mirific1490

wondrous1509

extonious1548

portentious1549

miraculous1569

geason1572

mirificalc1572

astounding1590

amazing1593

wonderedc1595

admiring1598

prodigious1600

astonishable1603

fabulous1609

wondered-at?1611

necromantic1627

stupendous1640

nigromantic1645

mirandous1652

surprising1665

mirabundous1694

astonishinga1704

wondersome1774

sublime1813

nasty1834

kill-me-quite1842

breathtaking1843

breath-catching1865

miracle-working1867

mouth opening1867

stupefying1870

gee whiz1889

scorching1890

doozy1903

sensational1909

eye-popping1918

wunnerful1924

crashing1931

staggering1934

eyewatering1950

mind-boggling1955

Ozymandian1961

knock-out1966

mind-blowing1966

motherfucking1973

boggling1975

gobsmacking1981

tubular1982

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective]

unhonest13..

inhonest1340

undecent1563

broad1579

nasty1601

indecent1613

paw1668

paw-paw1723

improper1739

unproper1797

fie-fie1812

warm1814

blue1818

indecorous1829

off-colour1875

sultry1887

suggestive1888

scorching1890

juicy1923

gamey1945

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [adjective] > motion of ball

scorching1890

rifling1931

alley-oop1957

1890 St. Nicholas Sept. 945/1 The first senior to the bat made first-base on a scorching grounder past third.

1896 A. Beardsley Let. c20 Sept. (1970) 167 Your joke is charming and I shall do you some scorching drawings for No. 8 [of The Savoy].

1897 Referee 24 Oct. 3/1 A said-to-be ‘scorching’ play entitled ‘At the Foot of the Altar’.

1963 A. Ross Australia 63 iii. 88 The two scorching catches by Cowdrey and Jarman.

1976 Ilkeston Advertiser 10 Dec. 18/2 Garbett scored with a scorching left foot drive.

1978 Morecambe Guardian 14 Mar. 15/3 (heading) It's a scorcher at the Duke's. A scorching new show opened at Lancaster's Duke's Playhouse on Friday.

3. quasi-adv., in scorching cold, scorching hot.

ΚΠ

1873 E. Hooper Nurseries & School Rooms 197 The sand so scorching hot that one could not bear one's hand upon it.

1876 E. W. Heap Diary 8 Sept. in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. (1969) lii. 54 Another scortching cold morning.

1883 Cent. Mag. July 428/1 The sun was scorching hot and the shade chilly.

Derivatives

ˈscorchingly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adverb] > so as to scorch

scorchingly1593

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 70 b Hauing naturally cleere beauty, scortchingly blazing, which enkindles any soule that comes neere it.

ˈscorchingness n.

ΚΠ

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Scorchingness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

† scorchingadj.²

Etymology: < scorch v.² + -ing suffix².

Obsolete.

Cutting, slashing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [adjective]

carving?c1225

flyschand?a1400

gashing1566

scorching1570

slicing1578

incisive1598

rescindent1598

hacking1602

dismangling1659

inciding1739

slashing1827

1570 in B.L. Ballads (1867) 179 The sister dire, fearce Atropos, with schortchyng cuttynge knyfe, Hath shred the threede that longe dyd holde this godly ladies lyfe.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

n.1563

adj.¹1563

adj.²1570

单词	scorching
释义	scorchingn. /ˈskɔːtʃɪŋ/ Etymology: < scorch v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action or an act of burning superficially, or of parching or shrivelling up by intense heat. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > exposure to injurious heat or fire > scorching fryingc1290 searing1552 scorching1563 scorch1646 charring1802 grill1842 1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 16 And if..you dout either the coldnes or hotnes of the season, in the scorching or burning of your seedes, then couer your beddes with the chaffe of corne. 1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) v. 22 Those parts of the world which are under..perpetuall scortchings. 1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 73 The excessive Scorchings of this and the two following Months..do frequently indanger the untimely falling both of Blossom and Fruit. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) I. 641 The scorchings of unextinguishable flames and gnawings of the never dying worm. †b. plural. Fragments detached by scorching. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > fragments detached by scorching scorchings1607 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > fragments detached by scorching scorchings1607 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 253 Goates Horne being burned at the end, and the pieces or scorchinges that rise thereof, must be shaken into a new vessell vntill the horne be quite consumed. 1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 59 Then with your Working-knife, or Chizzel, take off the Scorchings to the clean Wood. 2. The action of riding a cycle or driving a motor car at a furious pace. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > at a furious pace scorching1891 1891 Wheeling 4 Mar. 422 We are..in a strong position to denounce the abuse of ‘scorching’ through inhabited parts of the country. 1898 Daily News 22 July 8/2 Do you ever scorch?—I do not know what you call scorching. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2020). scorchingadj.¹ /ˈskɔːtʃɪŋ/ Etymology: < scorch v.¹ + -ing suffix². 1. a. That scorches, burning, withering. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > injuriously > scorching bristling1561 scorching1563 branding1811 searing1818 swithering1895 1563 A. Neville in B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. F.vi^v The Body dryed by broylyng blase, Of preuy schorchyng Flame. 1628 W. Mure Doomesday 206 There, to the drunkard's parched throate, Justice doth scrotching drought allote, In floods of fire. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 691 How had the World Inhabited, though sinless, more then now, Avoided pinching cold and scorching heate? View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 6 While in the scorching Sun I trace in vain Thy flying footsteps. 1745 Watts' Hymn, ‘How bright these glorious spirits shine’ Hunger and Thirst are felt no more, Nor Suns with scorching Ray. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. vi. 6 He..from his native land resolv'd to go, And visit scorching climes beyond the sea. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues II. 249 Under the heat of a scorching sun. figurative.1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 87 No more shalt thou..on Gods Altar cast two scorching [1648 scortching] eyes.1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding §294 I have been about to preach upon some smart and scorching portion of the word.1895 Ld. Acton Lect. Study Hist. 59 After looking about for a scorching imprecation, he [Titus Oates] began to call them Tories. b. transferred. Causing a burning sensation, irritant. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > burning burninga1475 urent1656 scorching1768 1768 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 8) Thapsia... The deadly Carrot, or scorching Fennel. c. transferred. Designating a period of excessive sunshine and heat. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > hot weather > [adjective] > very scorching1940 1940 ‘Gun Buster’ Return via Dunkirk ii. xix. 220 It is a pale, steady dawn, breaking with a slight haze that presages another scorching day. 1962 A. Wesker Chips with Everything i. i. 12 This hut..is going to be your home for the next eight scorching weeks. 2. colloquial. Astounding, sensational; licentious, risqué; in Sport, of a shot or hit: exceedingly fast, ‘blistering’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adjective] wonderlyc893 wonderfula1100 wondera1175 wondersa1300 marvellousc1330 marvela1400 marvelly?a1400 mirablec1429 admirablec1450 marvellablec1450 mirific1490 wondrous1509 extonious1548 portentious1549 miraculous1569 geason1572 mirificalc1572 astounding1590 amazing1593 wonderedc1595 admiring1598 prodigious1600 astonishable1603 fabulous1609 wondered-at?1611 necromantic1627 stupendous1640 nigromantic1645 mirandous1652 surprising1665 mirabundous1694 astonishinga1704 wondersome1774 sublime1813 nasty1834 kill-me-quite1842 breathtaking1843 breath-catching1865 miracle-working1867 mouth opening1867 stupefying1870 gee whiz1889 scorching1890 doozy1903 sensational1909 eye-popping1918 wunnerful1924 crashing1931 staggering1934 eyewatering1950 mind-boggling1955 Ozymandian1961 knock-out1966 mind-blowing1966 motherfucking1973 boggling1975 gobsmacking1981 tubular1982 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] unhonest13.. inhonest1340 undecent1563 broad1579 nasty1601 indecent1613 paw1668 paw-paw1723 improper1739 unproper1797 fie-fie1812 warm1814 blue1818 indecorous1829 off-colour1875 sultry1887 suggestive1888 scorching1890 juicy1923 gamey1945 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [adjective] > motion of ball scorching1890 rifling1931 alley-oop1957 1890 St. Nicholas Sept. 945/1 The first senior to the bat made first-base on a scorching grounder past third. 1896 A. Beardsley Let. c20 Sept. (1970) 167 Your joke is charming and I shall do you some scorching drawings for No. 8 [of The Savoy]. 1897 Referee 24 Oct. 3/1 A said-to-be ‘scorching’ play entitled ‘At the Foot of the Altar’. 1963 A. Ross Australia 63 iii. 88 The two scorching catches by Cowdrey and Jarman. 1976 Ilkeston Advertiser 10 Dec. 18/2 Garbett scored with a scorching left foot drive. 1978 Morecambe Guardian 14 Mar. 15/3 (heading) It's a scorcher at the Duke's. A scorching new show opened at Lancaster's Duke's Playhouse on Friday. 3. quasi-adv., in scorching cold, scorching hot. ΚΠ 1873 E. Hooper Nurseries & School Rooms 197 The sand so scorching hot that one could not bear one's hand upon it. 1876 E. W. Heap Diary 8 Sept. in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. (1969) lii. 54 Another scortching cold morning. 1883 Cent. Mag. July 428/1 The sun was scorching hot and the shade chilly. Derivatives ˈscorchingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adverb] > so as to scorch scorchingly1593 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 70 b Hauing naturally cleere beauty, scortchingly blazing, which enkindles any soule that comes neere it. ˈscorchingness n. ΚΠ 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Scorchingness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2019). † scorchingadj.² Etymology: < scorch v.² + -ing suffix². Obsolete. Cutting, slashing. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [adjective] carving?c1225 flyschand?a1400 gashing1566 scorching1570 slicing1578 incisive1598 rescindent1598 hacking1602 dismangling1659 inciding1739 slashing1827 1570 in B.L. Ballads (1867) 179 The sister dire, fearce Atropos, with schortchyng cuttynge knyfe, Hath shred the threede that longe dyd holde this godly ladies lyfe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1563adj.¹1563adj.²1570
随便看	to leave to the mercies of to leave to the mercy of to leave to, be at the courtesy to leave to, be at the courtesy of to leave under fog to leave up to leave well to leave well alone to leave well enough alone to leave wide open to leave wide open to something to lecture it to leese one's life-days to leese one's lifedays to leftward to leftward of to leg along to leg it to leg out to leg through to lend a a helping hand to lend a deaf ear to lend a hand to lend a shoulder to lend an ear or one's ears

scorchingn.

scorchingadj.1

Derivatives

† scorchingadj.2

scorchingadj.¹

† scorchingadj.²