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SINGE

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Irregular inflected form: singing   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A surface burn

Synonyms:

scorch; singe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("singe" is a kind of...):

burn (an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation)

Derivation:

singe (burn superficially or lightly)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Burn superficially or lightly

Example:

I singed my eyebrows

Synonyms:

singe; swinge

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "singe" is one way to...):

blacken; char; scorch; sear (burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

singe (a surface burn)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become superficially burned

Example:

my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames

Synonyms:

scorch; sear; singe

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "singe" is one way to...):

burn; combust (undergo combustion)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

He went on with his singing, just as though we had not been present.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As he spoke there came a roar of singing from the tavern upon the right, with shouts of laughter and stamping of feet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It will be as if you hear bells and a choir of angels singing.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Why, Watson, even your modest moustache would have been singed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were coated solidly with ice, and the two men kept them on the run around the fire, sweating and thawing, so close that they were singed by the flames.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They walked along listening to the singing of the brightly colored birds and looking at the lovely flowers which now became so thick that the ground was carpeted with them.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

She spent whole hours at the pianoforte alternately singing and crying; her voice often totally suspended by her tears.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A heavy swivel-hook, baited with fat salt-pork, was dropped overside; and by the time I had compressed the severed veins and arteries, the sailors were singing and heaving in the offending monster.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He began by speaking of the concert gravely, more like the Captain Wentworth of Uppercross; owned himself disappointed, had expected singing; and in short, must confess that he should not be sorry when it was over.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)