Scorch vs Pyre - What's the difference?
scorch | pyre |
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
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
:* For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. - Homer Iliad, p. 31
Any heap or pile of combustibles.
As nouns the difference between scorch and pyre
is that scorch is a slight or surface burn while pyre is a funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.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