charred

[ chahrd ]

/ tʃɑrd /

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adjective

burned or reduced to charcoal: Photos provided by the fire department show the charred remains of a sports car.

slightly burned; scorched: The charred onions add a nice flavor to the pork chops.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of char¹.

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Origin of charred

un·charred, adjectivewell-charred, adjective

The torn bread develops a mix of crispy and soft textures as the fat renders onto it before a quick run under the broiler, which also adds an enticing kiss of char to the potatoes.
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Imagine waking up to find a guy who looks like a tech startup employee eating your charred crispy leg.
The Red Viper, Zoe Barnes, and the Best Fictional Deaths of 2014|Melissa Leon|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Fourteen years on, the wooden stairs and ceiling are still charred, and the walls are studded with clusters of bullet holes.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis|Nina Strochlic|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
According to reports at the time, their charred corpses were discovered two months later.
Caught: Female Assassin Who Allegedly Murdered Five American Nuns|Barbie Latza Nadeau|September 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Like bourbon, rye must be aged in charred oak barrels for at least two years.
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He reaches in—and pulls out the charred bagel, one half at a time.
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Charred beams and blackened walls showed stark and gaunt in the glow of a smoldering mass of wreckage.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
And when Henry found her, she was just rolling the charred balls out onto the flat stones.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
Eusebius speaks of the charred remains of Polycarp as more precious than the richest jewels, and more tried than gold.
The Catacombs of Rome|William Henry Withrow
Then he took a match and burned the original drawing until it was but charred black ashes.
The Amazing Interlude|Mary Roberts Rinehart
I had expected to find quantities of charred black paper, with possibly some fragments of binding, and was quite incredulous.
The Sinn Fein rebellion As I Saw It.|Mrs. Hamilton Norway