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scorching
CIDE DICTIONARY
scorching, a.
- Burning; parching or shriveling with heat. [1913 Webster]
- sufficiently hot to cause scorching. [PJC]
THESAURUS
scorching
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, zealousROGET THESAURUS
scorching
Violence
N violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity, boisterousness, effervescence, ebullition, turbulence, bluster, uproar, callithump, riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire, severity, ferocity, rage, fury, exacerbation, exasperation, malignity, fit, paroxysm, orgasm, climax, aphrodisia, force, brute force, outrage, coup de main, strain, shock, shog, spasm, convulsion, throe, hysterics, passion, outbreak, outburst, debacle, burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion, torrent, turmoil, ferment, storm, tempest, rough weather, squall, earthquake, volcano, thunderstorm, berserk, berserker, fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto, madcap, wild beast, fire eater, violent, vehement, warm, acute, sharp, rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild, brusque, abrupt, waspish, impetuous, rampant, turbulent, disorderly, blustering, raging, troublous, riotous, tumultuary, tumultuous, obstreperous, uproarious, extravagant, unmitigated, ravening, inextinguishable, tameless, frenzied, desperate, infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics, fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient, savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger, excited, unquelled, unquenched, unextinguished, unrepressed, unbridled, unruly, headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, immitigable, unmitigable, uncontrollable, incontrollable, insuppressible, irrepressible, orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic, spasmodic, convulsive, explosive, detonating, volcanic, meteoric, stormy, violently, amain, by storm, by force, by main force, with might and main, tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, at one fell swoop, with a high hand, through thick and thin, in desperation, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, headlong, head foremost, furor arma ministrat, blown with restless violence round about the pende.For further exploring for "scorching" in Webster Dictionary Online