parch
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
parch (parches, present participle parching; 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.
- Bible, Leviticus xxiii. 14
- Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.
- Bible, Leviticus xxiii. 14
- (transitive) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
- The patient's mouth is parched from fever.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make thirsty.
- We're parched, hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?
- (transitive, archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in parched peas, a type of mushy peas).
- (intransitive) To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.
- The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.
- German: ausdörren
- Russian: выжига́ть
- Spanish: torrefacer
- Russian: пересыха́ть
- German: rösten
- Russian: пересыха́ть
parch (plural parches)
- The condition of being parched.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music (novel), Penguin 2006, p. 64:
- Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music (novel), Penguin 2006, p. 64:
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