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Scorched

/skˈɔrtʃt/
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(adj) Dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.

The bread was scorched from being cooked on the open flame of the camp fire.
The sun scorched the land and withered the crops.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The drought had ____ the fields, leaving the ground cracked and bare.

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