Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Burned; parched with heat.
- In zoöl., colored as if scorched or singed.
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- adjective
Dried ,damaged orburnt byexposure tosunlight orheat . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
scorch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy
- adjective dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
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Examples
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I would want to know, and not use the term scorched Earth, but you would go in there and try and determine what it was that actually caused this.
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Mrs. Nooyi said she decided several years ago to stop what she calls the "scorched earth policy" of scrapping for a point or two of market share in the shrinking cola market.
PepsiCo Chief Defends Her Strategy to Promote 'Good for You' Foods Valerie Bauerlein 2011
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"They engage in scorched-earth litigation tactics to get plaintiffs to take toothless settlements," Verheyden-Hilliard said.
From 2007 to 2009, D.C. paid more than $50 million in legal settlements Paul Schwartzman Washington Post Staff Writer 2010
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"They engage in scorched-earth litigation tactics to get plaintiffs to take toothless settlements," Verheyden-Hilliard said.
D.C.'s other thriving industry: Lawsuits Paul Schwartzman 2010
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Each battered plate of bark is the size of a dinosaur 's scale, some of them scorched from a long-ago fire.
Taking Tree-Hugging to New Heights Benjamin Percy 2010
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"They engage in scorched-earth litigation tactics to get plaintiffs to take toothless settlements," Verheyden-Hilliard said.
From 2007 to 2009, D.C. paid more than $50 million in legal settlements Paul Schwartzman Washington Post Staff Writer 2010
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They also have to be personally and professionally destroyed in scorched-earth fashion.
Matthew Yglesias » If You Want to Get Things Done, Use Reconciliation 2010
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This in scorched earth stuff and on the other side the Ashcroft money is being switched to the new marginals in operation Landslide
Labour Play The Race Card Again Newmania 2008
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Years, or at least months from now we will look back on this day and remember that it was the day when it all began†the day when our already charred sensibilities were once again scorched by the flames of idiotic fashions, when long-forgotten fears of echoing, punny rhetorical questions were once again riled, and when the world once again took on that sickly, candy pink, Cosmo-colored hue.
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He bounded up the steps -- "Christie," he said, and the word scorched his lips like audible flame.
The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson 1887
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