Synonyms of the word

sear

• adj. Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
• v. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument.
• v. To wither; to dry up.
• v. (figuratively) To mark permanently, as if by burning.
• n. A scar produced by searing.
• n. Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.

blacken

• v. (ergative) (To cause) to be or become black.
• v. To make dirty.
• v. To defame or sully.
• v. To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
• v. (intransitive) To become black.

burn

• n. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
• n. A sensation resembling such an injury.
• n. The act of burning something.
• n. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
• n. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
• n. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
• n. (Britain, chiefly prison slang) tobacco.
• n. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
• n. A disease in vegetables; brand.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
• v. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
• v. (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
• v. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
• v. (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
• v. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.
• v. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
• v. (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect…
• v. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
• v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat;…
• v. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
• v. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
• v. (transitive, slang) To betray.
• v. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To waste (time).
• v. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
• v. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
• v. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
• v. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare…
• n. (Scotland, Northern England) A stream.

char

• v. (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
• v. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
• n. A charred substance.
• n. One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
• n. (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
• n. (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
• n. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
• n. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
• v. (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
• v. To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
• v. (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
• v. To work or hew (stone, etc.).
• n. (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
• n. (Britain) Alternative form of cha.

combust

• v. To burn; to catch fire.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness.
• adj. (obsolete) Burnt.
• adj. (astrology) In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes…

dry

• adj. Free from or lacking moisture.
• adj. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (Petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
• adj. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
• adj. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquid…
• adj. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
• adj. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
• adj. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly.
• adj. (sciences, somewhat pejorative) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
• n. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
• n. (especially Australia, with "the") The dry season.
• n. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
• v. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
• v. (transitive) To remove moisture from.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.

heat

• n. (uncountable) Thermal energy.
• n. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
• n. (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
• n. (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
• n. (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
• n. (uncountable, slang) The police.
• n. (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
• n. (countable, baseball) A fastball.
• n. (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore…
• n. (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
• n. (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to…
• n. (countable) A hot spell.
• n. (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
• n. (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
• v. To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot (often with…
• v. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
• v. To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
• v. To arouse, to excite (sexually).

parch

• v. (transitive) To burn the surface of, to scorch.
• v. (transitive) To roast, as dry grain.
• v. (transitive) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make thirsty.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in parched peas, a type of mushy…
• v. (intransitive) To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.
• n. The condition of being parched.

scorch

• n. A slight or surface burn.
• n. A discolouration caused by heat.
• n. (phytopathology) Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.
• v. (transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it.
• v. (transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings…
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed.
• v. (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground).
• v. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

sere

• adj. Without moisture.
• n. An intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community.
• adj. (now rare, archaic, dialectal) Set apart; separate; individual; different; diverse; several; many.
• n. (obsolete) Claw; talon.

shriveled

• adj. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
• adj. Collapsed in size.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shrivel.

shrivelled

• adj. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
• adj. Collapsed in size.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shrivel.

singe

• v. (transitive) To burn slightly.
• v. (transitive) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame,…
• v. (transitive) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.
• n. A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

withered

• adj. Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wither.