singe - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'singe' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Singe

[ n.]

- A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

2 . Singe

[ v. t.]

- 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.
- To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
- To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.

Meaning of 'singe' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . singe

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- burn superficially or lightly

Example in sentence:

I singed my eyebrows

Meaning (2):
- become superficially burned

Example in sentence:

my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames

Nearby Words:

sin sinaic sinaitic sinalbin sinamine sinapate sinapic sinapine sinapis sinapisin

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Schacter-singer theory of emotion
According to schacter –singer theory of emotion, the belief that emotions are determined jointly by a nonspecific kind of physiological arousal and

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