Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a scorching manner; so as to scorch or burn the surface.
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- adverb In a way or to a degree that
scorches
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Examples
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Parts of the West Coast were actually a bit cool, but other areas were so scorchingly hot -- parts of Texas and Oklahoma, for example, were 10 degrees above average --; that the U.S. as a whole was 2.5 ºF hotter than it is during a normal summer.
David Kroodsma: The Record Summer of 2011: You Haven't Seen Anything Yet David Kroodsma 2011
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In Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's arch, elegant, richly detailed biographical novel centered on Cromwell … characters are scorchingly well rendered.
Wolf Hall: Summary and book reviews of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. 2009
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ABC's underrated-in-every-sense-of-the-word cop drama proved just how good it is — not just good for you — with "Stone Cold," scorchingly directed by Cadillac Records' Darnell Martin.
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Parts of the West Coast were actually a bit cool, but other areas were so scorchingly hot -- parts of Texas and Oklahoma, for example, were 10 degrees above average --; that the U.S. as a whole was 2.5 ºF hotter than it is during a normal summer.
David Kroodsma: The Record Summer of 2011: You Haven't Seen Anything Yet David Kroodsma 2011
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As if to sabotage this space metaphor Kenny Dalglish has omitted most of Liverpool's stars but he has at least given substitute places to some supposedly promising youngsters who are orbiting the first team, namely Conor Coady, Daniel Pacheco and the scorchingly hot prospect Joe Cole.
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A scorchingly hot summer has left Russia's vast population of bears without their traditional sources of food, leading the animals to dig up human corpses from municipal cemeteries for nourishment, the Guardian is reporting.
Russian Bears Eating Corpses Curtis M. Wong 2010
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A scorchingly hot summer has left Russia's vast population of bears without their traditional sources of food, leading the animals to dig up human corpses from municipal cemeteries for nourishment, the Guardian is reporting.
Russian Bears Eating Corpses Curtis M. Wong 2010
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A scorchingly hot summer has left Russia's vast population of bears without their traditional sources of food, leading the animals to dig up human corpses ...
Russian Bears Eating Corpses Curtis M. Wong 2010
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A scorchingly hot summer has left Russia's vast population of bears without their traditional sources of food, leading the animals to dig up human corpses from municipal cemeteries for nourishment, the Guardian is reporting.
Russian Bears Eating Corpses The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Parts of the West Coast were actually a bit cool, but other areas were so scorchingly hot -- parts of Texas and Oklahoma, for example, were 10 degrees above average --; that the U.S. as a whole was 2.5 ºF hotter than it is during a normal summer.
David Kroodsma: The Record Summer of 2011: You Haven't Seen Anything Yet David Kroodsma 2011
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