Scorch vs Burnout - What's the difference?
scorch | burnout |
A slight or surface burn.
A discolouration caused by heat.
Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.
To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
* Prior
To become scorched or singed
To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground)
To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
* Bible, Revelations xvi. 8
* Dryden
Using the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.
(US, slang) A marijuana addict; one whose brains have been burned out.
(psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
As nouns the difference between scorch and burnout
is that scorch is a slight or surface burn while burnout is using the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.As a verb scorch
is to burn the surface of something so as to discolour it.scorch
English
Noun
(es)Derived terms
* scorchyVerb
(es)- Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
- Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
- the fire that scorches me to death