- (v.i.) To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; -- applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.].
- (v.t.) To burn superficially; to parch or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.
- (v.t.) To burn; to destroy by or as by, fire.
- (v.i.) To burn or be burnt.
- (v.i.) To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
- (v.t.) To affect painfully with heat or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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