- Burn slightly - Char - Parched with heat - Singe - To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface
of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture
without consuming; as, to scorch linen. - To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry
up with heat; to affect as by heat. - To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.