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Burn most of music at church (6)

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I believe the answer is:

scorch

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'burn' is the definition.
(I know that scorch is a type of burn)

'most of music at church' is the wordplay.
'most of' means to remove the last letter.
'music' becomes 'score' (score is a kind of music).
'at church' becomes 'ch' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'score' with its final letter taken away is 'scor'.
'scor'+'ch'='SCORCH'

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(Other definitions for scorch that I've seen before include "dry up" , "Become burnt on the surface" , "Burn on the surfaces" , "Shrivel through heat" , "go very fast" .)

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