Synonyms for scorched
scorched

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1. adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbakedadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   baked, adust, sunbaked, parched

   Antonyms:
   wet, preserved

2. scorchedadjective

   having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy

   "Sherman's scorched earth policy"

   Synonyms:
   baked, sunbaked, adust, parched

   Antonyms:
   preserved, wet

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1. List of paraphrases for "scorched":

   burnt, burned, charred

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How to use scorched in a sentence?

1. John Kilduff:

   Prices plunged because the OPEC confab ended up being an epic fail on the part of all involved. Russia has clearly decided to employ a scorched earth approach to the oil market: every country for itself.

2. Adam Smith:

   You would roll them and depending upon whether the scorched side or the marked side came up you would [get] a different interpretation.

3. Maura Healey:

   I hope this decision will encourage Exxon to end their scorched earth campaign.

4. Stephen Innes:

   Any sliver of optimism on the trade war front will be viewed in a very positive light, surely both parties can't be happy to move forward with their scorched earth policy.

5. Luisa Guerra:

   This is a scorched earth campaign, and people don't like it.