Scorched has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
Adjective
Verb
1
simple past tense and past participle of scorch
Adjective
1
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"
2
having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy
"Sherman's scorched earth policy"
3
Dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.
Example Sentences
"a vast desert all adust"
adjective
"land lying baked in the heat"
adjective
"parched soil"
adjective
"the earth was scorched and bare"
adjective
"sunbaked salt flats"
adjective
"Sherman's scorched earth policy"
adjective