singe

The mural survived the Palisades fire with minor singe marks.

Visually epic, sonically relentless and otherwise fatuous, the film has a dramatic inertia occasionally punctuated by eruptions of utter catastrophe—a series of shocks that leaves you singed, shaken and not much better for it.

Ms Moore said she heard her daughter screaming for help, but when the door was removed they were prevented from reaching her by fierce smoke and flames, which singed her hair.

A flaming splinter from the burning plane had struck his backpack, singed his trousers and scorched his hand.

He walked down a side street, pointing out the singed remains of houses that he said were torched by Bedouins and government-linked fighters.