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[adj] damaged or discolored by superficial burning:"the scorched blouse tore easily"
[adj] having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy; "Sherman's scorched earth policy"
[adj] dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats"