Words similar to scorch

Example sentences for: scorch

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What Jonathan Pollard did do is warn Israel that Saddam Hussein had amassed American-approved and American-financed weapons of mass destruction, which he intended to use to scorch the Jewish state.
A piece inside the Times braces with the reminder that a full blown Senate trial could scorch plenty of earth, stating that President Clinton's legal team is prepared to call friends of Monica Lewinsky to testify that she frequently exaggerated the details of her trysts with Clinton.
Tosuto (toast), another popular word of nebulous background means `jealousy': toasting bread in Japanese is known as pan o yakeru; the verb yakeru `toast, bake, scorch' is also used in standard Japanese for `jealousy'; the teenagers computed: `burning with jealousy ...