Enemy vs Scorch - What's the difference?
enemy | scorch |
Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
An alliance of such forces.
Something harmful or threatening to another
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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
As nouns the difference between enemy and scorch
is that enemy is someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else while scorch is a slight or surface burn.As a adjective enemy
is of, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.As a verb scorch is
to burn the surface of something so as to discolour it.enemy
English
Noun
(wikipedia enemy) (enemies)- He made a lot of enemies after reducing the working hours in his department.
- Crush the enemy !
- rally together against a common enemy .
- The very thing the 16 skiers and snowboarders had sought — fresh, soft snow — instantly became the enemy . Somewhere above, a pristine meadow cracked in the shape of a lightning bolt, slicing a slab nearly 200 feet across and 3 feet deep. Gravity did the rest.
Synonyms
* foe * unfriend * adversary * nemesis * backfriendAntonyms
* ally * friendDerived terms
{{der3, archenemy , enemydom , enemyful , enemyhood , enemyish , enemyless , enemylike , enemyness , enemyship , enemywise}}See also
* nemesisStatistics
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* (l) 1000 English basic words ----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