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Scorching vs Burning - What's the difference?

scorching | burning |

Burning is a synonym of scorching.



As adjectives the difference between scorching and burning

is that scorching is very hot while burning is so hot as to seem to burn (something).

As verbs the difference between scorching and burning

is that scorching is present participle of lang=en while burning is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between scorching and burning

is that scorching is the act or result of something being scorched while burning is the act by which something burns or is burned.

scorching

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very hot.
    • It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or result of something being scorched.
  • * 1839 , The Lancet (volume 2, page 682)
    • There were several slight scratches and scorchings about the face, sides of the neck and shoulders
  • * 1997 , Larry Dean Olsen, Outdoor Survival Skills (page 76)
    • Green wood hardens after about four or five scorchings in the fire, but several scorchings are required to drive out the sap.

    burning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • So hot as to seem to burn (something).
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
  • Feeling very hot.
  • Feeling great passion.
  • Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • Like a young hound upon a burning scent.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something burns or is burned.
  • * 1828 , Timothy Flint, The Western Monthly Review (volume 1, page 403)
    • It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance
  • * 1850 , The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
    • The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
  • A fire.
    • The burnings continued all day.