| Definitions of 'singe' |
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1. (verb) scorch, singe
a surface burn
2. (verb) singe, swinge
burn superficially or lightly
"I singed my eyebrows"
3. (verb) scorch, sear, singe
become superficially burned
"my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"
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| Definitions of 'singe' |
Webster 1913 Dictionary |
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1. (noun) singe
a burning of the surface; a slight burn
2. (verb) singe
to burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin
3. (verb) singe
to remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it
4. (verb) singe
to remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame
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