badly charred
Frequency: 6.55.2 per million words
Indicates something is severely or extensively burnt.
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Examples (10)
- The firefighters found the building's wooden frame was badly charred.
- Investigators could barely identify the badly charred remains of the vehicle.
- I forgot about the toast, and it came out badly charred and inedible.
- He left the steak on the grill for too long, leaving one side badly charred.
- The evidence was so badly charred that it was useless to the investigation.
- Ancient scrolls discovered in the cave were badly charred but still readable.
- After the forest fire, the trees stood like badly charred skeletons.
- By the time they extinguished the blaze, the entire roof had become badly charred.
- The report states that the documents are badly charred but partially legible.
- Rescuers sifted through the wreckage, finding little more than badly charred debris.