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  1. transitive verb To burn superficially; scorch.
  2. transitive verb To burn off the feathers or bristles of (a carcass of a bird or animal) by subjecting briefly to flame. See Synonyms at burn1.
  3. transitive verb To burn the ends of (hair, for example).
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  • Little round hole with a corona of singe-marks around it. —  Duma Key
  • He had managed to get the limbs all in the right proportions, and Khefti's bulging belly, ugly frown and perpetually-creased brows just right. —  Joust
  • He didn't have so much as a singe-mark on him despite not being armored, but he was stinking wet from pond water. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • "A wonder there's anything left to singe, after three days in that brothel. —  The Day of the Dissonance
  • But he passed among hundreds of Aeneans. —  The Day of Their Return
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English sengen, from Old English sengan.

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  1. from singe, v.
 

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