Parched

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parch \Parch\ (p[aum]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parched}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Parching}.] [OE. perchen to pierce, hence used of a
     piercing heat or cold, OF. perchier, another form of percier,
     F. percer. See {Pierce}.]
     1. To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire,
        as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.


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              Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. --Lev.
                                                    xxiii. 14.
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     2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth
        is parched from fever.
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              The ground below is parched.          --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  parched
       adj 1: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast
              desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat";
              "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare";
              "sunbaked salt flats" [syn: {adust}, {baked}, {scorched},
               {sunbaked}]
       2: toasted or roasted slightly; "parched corn was a staple of
          the Indian diet"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "parched":
     Sanforized, adust, ashen, ashy, athirst, attenuated, baked,
     blistered, burned, burnt, burnt-up, consumed, consumed by fire,
     corky, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dried-up, droughty, dry,
     emacerated, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated, gutted, incinerated,
     mummified, preshrunk, pyrographic, pyrolyzed, scorched, sear,
     seared, sere, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, singed,
     sun-dried, sunbaked, sunburned, thin, thirsting, thirsty, wasted,
     wasted away, weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizen, wizen-faced,
     wizened