singed

American  

[sinjd] / sɪndʒd /

adjective

1. slightly or superficially burned; scorched.

   He suffered some singed whiskers from all the heat and smoke, but otherwise was miraculously unharmed.

2. (of a carcass) subjected to flame in order to remove hair, bristles, feathers, etc..

   Using a knife, the butcher scrubbed the crust off the singed carcass of a pig.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of singe.

Other Word Forms

• unsinged
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of singed

singe ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Singed by social media snark, artists will use their art to retaliate.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2021

Singed palm trees — their fronds deformed by the flames — rise spiky and exotic like something from the imagination of Dr. Seuss.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2017

Singed, but largely intact, they include one of St. Paul’s Chapel, which for months served as a shelter and refuge for recovery workers, volunteers and victims’ families.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2011

Singed by cynicism, yet even more desperately concerned with the issues at stake, the world of 1946 had lost the loud and holy zeal with which it had hoped for eternal peace in 1919.

From Time Magazine Archive

“And this is the hand of a woman who would have made it through the fire on her own if I hadn’t been there. Singed perhaps, but safe.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Related Words

• charred
• scorched