verb
- Burn to charcoal.
- usage: "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"
- Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color.
- usage: "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling"
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