The word "singed" is correct in written English.
It is used to describe the action of burning something slightly or superficially. Example: "The edges of the paper were singed after being too close to the candle flame." Alternatives include "scorched" or "charred."
In the shadow of a teaching hospital whose windows had been blasted out, diggers began moving sheets of metal, rubble and singed clothes from the streets.
Then you see an old singed advert for the absent Ruby's Restaurant, and you know.
Most of the 66 customer complaints that Mitsubishi Electric had received since the sets were made in 1987-90, officials explained, were not so serious, although some involved singed curtains and blackened walls.
Barbed wire is going up around some diplomatic compounds, and border sweeps are pushing escapees back into North Korea.In this section An economy singed Moi?
War crimes and misdemeanours The faithless masses Singh singed Leaping the wall The worth of water ReprintsPartly because of the political implications, the war-crimes trials have run into trouble before they have even started.
War crimes and misdemeanours The faithless masses Singh singed Leaping the wall The worth of water ReprintsChina's new tactic, as far as experts can guess, is to make the use of Gmail and paid-for VPN services more inconvenient, but not to cut off access altogether.
The recent tumult has singed Merrill (now valued at $38 billion) but scorched Schwab (value: $35 billion).Many suspect that demand has dried up not only for shares bought through Schwab's discount-broking arm but also for funds from its mutual-fund supermarket.
Its charred chassis and a singed palm tree next to the colonel's white-tiled but wrecked villa were shown off to the foreign media.The state propaganda tries to stiffen the people's resolve to resist NATO and defend their Brother Leader.
HEAR about the nudist who tried firewalking and sued because he got singed?
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Mindful of the golden state's high catastrophe risks, which include earthquakes as well as blazes, Allstate recently stopped issuing insurance policies to new homeowners.The rise in singed acres is largely due to two factors: widespread drought, which may become endemic thanks to climate change, and the Forest Service's policy of stopping all fires as soon as they start.
