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singed

[ sinjd ]

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.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of singe.
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  • un·singed adjective
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Example Sentences

Should you prefer a more subtle singe, you can remove the ribs and seeds when dicing the pepper.

Their bodies were found singed in the burnt-out car in which they were killed.

I may not have burned bridges,” Romney told Scott, “but a few of them were singed and smoking.

His perfect pedigree was singed by stories in The New York Times that he exaggerated his Vietnam War record.

Stunned and singed, you went below decks and helped jettison bombs.

Red-hot cinders he highly relished, though in obtaining them he frequently singed off his moustaches.

An odor of singed flesh drifted up from the ashes on the sand.

Drake sailed into Cadiz harbour, and "singed the don's whiskers," but the vast preparations went on.

The damage amounted to two blankets singed and dirtied, Jones's face scorched and hair singed, and Kennedy, one finger jammed.

If this fail to extort a confession, he is singed to death with red-hot stones.

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