Synonyms of the word

swinge

• v. (obsolete) To singe.
• v. (archaic) To move like a lash; to lash.
• v. (archaic) To strike hard.
• v. (obsolete) To chastise; to beat.
• n. (archaic) A swinging blow.
• n. (obsolete) Power; sway; influence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.