How to pronounce "scorching"

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are never truly safe.

Unlike the Moon -- our dead, rocky companion --

the Earth is alive, pulsing with creative and destructive forces

that power its geological metabolism.

Lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts

all date back to about the age of the Solar System.

Moon rocks are forever.

Earth rocks, on the other hand, face the perils of a living lithosphere.

All will suffer ruination,

through some combination of mutilation, compression,

folding, tearing, scorching and baking.

Thus, the volumes of Earth history are incomplete and disheveled.

The library is vast and magnificent --

but decrepit.

And it was this tattered complexity in the rock record

that obscured its meaning until relatively recently.

Nature provided no card catalog for geologists --

this would have to be invented.

Five thousand years after the Sumerians learned to record their thoughts

on clay tablets,

the Earth's volumes remained inscrutable to humans.

Phonetic Breakdown of "scorching"

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scorch-ing

2 syllables

IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

S K AO1 R CH IH0 NG

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Definition of "scorching"

Verb

To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
(To cause) to become scorched or singed
To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.

Noun

The act or result of something being scorched.

Adjective

Very hot.

Example: "It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade."
Bitterly sarcastic; scathing; withering.
(Of speed when driving, running, etc.) very high.

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