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Scooched vs Scorched - What's the difference?

scooched | scorched |

As verbs the difference between scooched and scorched

is that scooched is (scooch) while scorched is (scorch).

As an adjective scorched is

dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.

scooched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (scooch)

    • scooch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * scootch * skooch * skootch

    Verb

  • (US) To shift, move aside, or scoot over.
  • * 1992 , Kevin Henkes, Words of Stone
    • "We could watch it all night," Joselle would add, scooching closer to her mother. "If it was on all night."
  • * 1998 , George Ostrom, Shannon Ostrom, Nature
    • Lying on your side, start rocking back and forth, scooching to and fro and kicking.
  • * 2002 , Andrew Clements, A Week in the Woods
    • Turning over onto his back, he scooched down farther into his bag. It was the kind of sleeping bag with a hood built into it, so he pulled on the drawstring...
  • To crouch.
  • *, chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ […].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.}}

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    scorched

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.

    • Derived terms

    * scorched-earth policy

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scorch)