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a kiss from heat that stops just short of consuming you whole.
means To burn or singe a surface just enough to discolor, dry, or damage it without fully consuming it — or, of heat or sun, to parch.
from From Middle English scorchen, likely from Old French escorchier, 'to strip off skin, flay' (from Late Latin excorticare, 'to remove the bark or hide'). The sense seems to have wandered from skinning toward burning, perhaps blurred with the Old Norse skorpna, 'to be shrivelled' — so behind the modern word sit two cousins: one that flays, one that crisps.
- earth event
- Scorched-earth tactics destroy everything useful to advancing enemies
- word age
- Likely Old Norse, meaning to shrivel or dry up
- plant tactic
- Some seeds need fire's scorch to germinate
- game classic
- Scorched Earth pioneered turn-based artillery warfare in 1991
- sun edge
- Scorch is heat just below true burning
for instance
operation desert storm — 1991 gulf war where coalition forces used scorched earth tactics across kuwait and iraq