different between unusable vs scorch
unusable
English
Etymology
From un- +? usable.
Adjective
unusable (comparative more unusable, superlative most unusable)
- Not usable.
Translations
unusable From the web:
scorch
English
Etymology
From Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sk??t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sk??t?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t?
Noun
scorch (countable and uncountable, plural scorches)
- A slight or surface burn.
- A discolouration caused by heat.
- (phytopathology) Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.
Synonyms
- (slight burn): singe
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
scorch (third-person singular simple present scorches, present participle scorching, simple past and past participle scorched)
- (transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
- (transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- (ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed
- (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
- To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
- Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
- the fire that scorches me to death
- (transitive) To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
- (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.
Translations
See also
- livid
References
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