Scorch vs Sweal - What's the difference?
scorch | sweal |
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
To burn slowly.
To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
(dialectal) To consume with fire; burn.
(dialectal) To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.
*1913 ,
*:Here!—But you know, they can sweal a tumour away.
In transitive terms the difference between scorch and sweal
is that scorch is to wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy while sweal is to singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.In intransitive terms the difference between scorch and sweal
is that scorch is to move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground while sweal is to melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.As a noun scorch
is a slight or surface burn.scorch
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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
References
sweal
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Walter Scott)