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scorched

DEFINITIONS OF: scorched

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adj dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

“the earth was scorched and bare”
Synonyms:
adust, baked, parched, sunbaked
dry
free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet

adj having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy

“Sherman's scorched earth policy”
Synonyms
destroyed
spoiled or ruined or demolished
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