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to severely harm — especially by fire or through criticism
- For my master, whose restless, craving, vicious nature roved about day and night, seeking whom to devour, had just left me, with stinging, scorching words; words that scathed ear and brain like fire.4 — The Slave Who Dared To Feel Like A Man (9% in)
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