singe Copy link Outline 1. ădūro, ssi, stum, 32. ambūro, ssi, stum, 3 (to burn the outside of anything, without consuming it) • singe: 1. ădūro, ssi, stum, 3: to s. the beard and hair with burning walnut shells (in lieu of shaving), candentibus juglandium putaminibus barbam et capillum a., Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58: Liv. 2. ambūro, ssi, stum, 3 (to burn the outside of anything, without consuming it): s.d by the conflagration which destroyed his associates (fig.), incendio sociorum ambustus, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, 70. Phr.: to s. a pig, suem, ex tenuibus lignis flammula facta, glabrare, Col. 12, 53, fin.