char

Nouns

  • (n) a charred substance
  • (n) a human female employed to do housework
    • the char will clean the carpet
    • I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write
    charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, woman,
  • (n) any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus charr,

Verbs

  • (v) burn to charcoal
    • Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything
    coal,
  • (v) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
    • The cook blackened the chicken breast
    • The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece
    • the flames scorched the ceiling
    blacken, sear, scorch,

Synonyms

coal charwoman cleaning lady cleaning woman woman blacken sear scorch charr

Words of close approximity

Chad chap chat chaw
chi
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