scorched
adjective
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Definition of scorched
: parched or discolored by scorching
Examples of scorched in a Sentence
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But halting his scorched-earth practices will require organised political action as well as protest. — The Economist, "The Amazon’s fires could burn Jair Bolsonaro," 29 Aug. 2019 Today, the big news about GE isn't the fate of those bedrock businesses, but the scorched-earth report from Harry Markopolos. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, "GE’s Basic Businesses Are Badly Underperforming, by This Accounting Metric," 27 Aug. 2019 This coaching staff was presented with a once in a lifetime blank slate to regenerate a franchise from scorched earth. — Conor Orr, SI.com, "From Helmet to Peeling Feet, Antonio Brown’s Drama Should Be No Surprise to Raiders," 9 Aug. 2019 In a clinical trial with prostate cancer patients, one of us (Gatenby) tried an alternative to the scorched-earth approach, applying only enough chemo to keep the tumor tiny without killing it entirely. — Robert Gatenby, Scientific American, "Darwin’s Ideas on Evolution Drive a Radical New Approach to Cancer Drug Use," 3 Aug. 2019 Germany, for example, along with most countries in the EU, reserves seats on company boards for workers, who are less likely to endorse scorched-earth layoff plans. — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, "The short but destructive history of mass layoffs," 12 July 2019 The Gulf monarchies had unleashed the scorched-Earth genocidal violence previously carried out by the fringes of Mr. Bashir’s regime in Darfur and South Sudan onto the streets of Khartoum for the very first time – and in front of cameras. — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, "How horrors in Sudan undermined US trust in its top Arab allies," 12 June 2019 RÃos Montt claimed that indigenous people in Guatemala were particularly susceptible to guerrilla influence, so scorched-earth campaigns against whole villages were necessary. — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, "Destined for Export," 10 June 2019 Pass a scorched black tree that was perhaps struck by lightning. — Jillian Kay Melchior, WSJ, "Yuma’s Humanitarian Emergency," 9 May 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'scorched.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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