Scorch

1. To burn or be burnt.
2. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.
3. To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.
4. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
5. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.