See scorching in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Marked by much heat:
ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, fiery, heated, hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, searing, sizzling, sultry, sweltering, torrid. See hotFired with intense feeling:
ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, impassioned, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, torrid. See feelings
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