singed

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verbburn

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verb burn

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freeze

burnt

adjective. burned

Word Origin & History

Old English sengan "to burn lightly, burn the edges" (of hair, wings, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *sangjanan (cf. Old Frisian of-sendza, Middle Dutch singhen, Dutch zengen, Old High German sengan, German sengen "to singe"). The root is said to be related to that of sing (v.), on the idea of some sort of sound produced by singeing (e.g. Century Dictionary), but Klein's sources reject this. Related: Singed; singeing. Singed cat "person whose appearance does not do him justice, person who is better than he looks" is from 1827.

Example Sentences for singed

Harvests perished like a moth that is singed in a candle-flame.

Not a single hair of the Captain's head seemed to have been singed.

His beard was singed in two places and his face was red and hot.

Twilled cloth of silk and wool; finished in the rough, not singed or sheared.

Still also have we to fear that incautious beards will get singed.

A smell of singed feathers and burning rubber filled the air.

To use his own expressive phrase, he had "singed the Spanish king's beard."

I've been speculating in railroad stock, and singed my fingers.

He felt the singed hair about its head, and murmured a sympathetic "vale."

I wouldn't eat a possum if he was singed, roasted, boiled, or fried.'

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