singe
has definitions from the field of medicine
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[ verb ] burn superficially or lightly
Examples "I singed my eyebrows" Used in print (T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)Molten glare singed their eyelids an angry crimson ; suffocating air sapped their strength and strained their nerves to snapping ; dust choked their throats and lay like acid in their lungs . |
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