1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scorch.

2. (a.) Burning; parching or shriveling with heat.

acerb acerbate acerbic acid acidic acidulent acidulous acrid acrimonious ardent baking biting bitter blazing blistering boiling branding broiling burning burning hot calcination canicular carbonization caustic cauterization cautery cineration combustion concremation corroding corrosive cracking cremation critical cupellation cutting deflagration destructive distillation distillation distilling ebullient excoriating fanatic feverish fiery flaming flushed grilling hard-core harsh heated hellish hot hot as fire hot as hell hotheaded incineration incisive inflamed keen like a furnace like an oven madcap mordacious mordant overheated overwarm oxidation oxidization parching passionate penetrating piercing piping hot pyrolysis red-hot refining roasting scalding scathing scorification searing seething self-immolation sharp simmering singeing sizzling sizzling hot smelting smoking hot stabbing stinging sudorific suttee sweating sweaty sweltering sweltry tart the stake thermogenesis toasting torrid totally committed trenchant tropical vesication vituperative white-hot withering zealous