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   Parching

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   • 1. causing dryness through intense heat: "a fierce parching heat has set in"

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   What is the meaning of parching?

   • (comparative more parching, superlative most parching) Capable of causing something to parch. (of thirst) Extreme.

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   • • Lack of rain has left acres and acres of parched fields. • It seemed to parch his mouth as he gulped it down. • My limbs fail, my mouth is parched, my hair is standing on end. • His mouth was parched with expectation and from the whisky of the night before. parch meaning, definition, what is parch: if the sun or wind parches something, it...:

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   Where does the verb parch come from?

   • The earliest known use of the verb parch is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for parch is from before 1382, in Bible (Wycliffite, early version). parch is of unknown origin.

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   What does it mean if something is parched?

   • If something, especially the ground or a plant, is parched, it is very dry, because there has been no rain . The clouds gathered and showers poured down upon the parched earth. ...a hill of parched brown grass. If your mouth, throat, or lips are parched, they are unpleasantly dry. If you say that you are parched, you mean that you are very thirsty.

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   parch. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Nature parch /pɑːtʃ $ pɑːrtʃ/ verb [ transitive] if the sun or wind parches something, it makes it very dry → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus parch • Between the mounds the soil was parched.

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   Definition of parching. present participle of parch. as in drying. to make dry the heat has really parched my throat. Synonyms & Similar Words. Relevance. drying. scorching. baking. desiccating. searing. dehydrating. draining. evaporating. shrivelling. dehumidifying. shriveling. withering. mummifying. air-drying. wizening. Antonyms & Near Antonyms.

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   Parching Definition. Meanings. Synonyms. Sentences. Definition Source. Adjective. Verb. Filter. adjective. Capable of causing something to parch. Wiktionary. (of thirst) Extreme. Wiktionary. verb. Present participle of parch. Wiktionary. Synonyms: dehydrating. desiccating. dry. blistering. burning. searing. charring. roasting. scorching.

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   Define parching. parching synonyms, parching pronunciation, parching translation, English dictionary definition of parching. v. parched , parch·ing , parch·es v. tr. 1. To make extremely dry, especially by exposure to heat: The midsummer sun parched the earth. See Synonyms at dry....

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   6 days ago · parch (third-person singular simple present parches, present participle parching, simple past and past participle parched) ( transitive) To burn the surface of, to scorch . The sun today could parch cement. ( transitive) To roast, as dry grain. ( transitive) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat. The patient’s mouth is parched from fever.

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   What does the verb parch mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb parch. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the verb parch? About 0.5 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency. How is the verb parch pronounced? British English.