Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scorch \Scorch\ (sk[^o]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scorched}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Scorching}.] [OE. scorchen, probably akin to
   scorcnen; cf. Norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skr["o]kka,
   to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. skr[*a]kkla to
   wrinkle (see {Shrug}); but perhaps influenced by OF.
   escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F.
   ['e]corcher, LL. excorticare; L. ex from + cortex, -icis,
   bark (cf. {Cork}); because the skin falls off when scorched.]
   1. To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface
      of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color
      and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.

            Summer drouth or sing[`e]d air Never scorch thy
            tresses fair.                         --Milton.

   2. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up
      with heat; to affect as by heat.

            Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
                                                  --Prior.

   3. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

            Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
                                                  --Rev. xvi. 8.

            The fire that scorches me to death.   --Dryden.

Source : WordNet®

scorched
     adj 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" [syn: {adust}, {baked}, {parched},
             {sunbaked}]
     2: having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable
        by an enemy; "Sherman's scorched earth policy"
     3: damaged or discolored by superficial burning:"the scorched
        blouse tore easily"