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

Hall wants to do with the chimneys what Hill did by framing those singed pieces of music — to create a work of art born from disaster that symbolizes the will to carry on.

From Los Angeles Times

She also had singed feathers on both sides of her body, but especially on the right, where Rogers said the wing looked particularly damaged.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Where the aged tree’s limbs once exploded into violet, singed branches crisscrossed in colorless sterility like an unfinished painting.

From Los Angeles Times

A few hydrangeas were singed five feet from the walls of house, but the home was unscathed.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• charred
• scorched