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parched

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adjective
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As an adjective, parched means dry.

Meanings of parched

4 meanings

adjective

  1. Dry.

  2. Very thirsty.

  3. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

    “a vast desert all adust”

    “land lying baked in the heat”

    “parched soil”

    Similar: adust, baked, scorched, sunbaked

  4. Toasted or roasted slightly

    “parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet”

verb

Simple past tense and past participle of parch

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

adjective: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
adustbakedscorchedsunbaked

Words that rhyme with parched

marchedstarchedarched

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