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6 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a surface burn
noun a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues
noun a discoloration caused by heat
originFrom Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”).
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