parch

Now more frequent and more intense, they destroy ground vegetation and parch the earth, which kills the ants and termites that pangolins survive on.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023

“Griffith cast a malevolent parch over the throats of local fandom by stating that inasmuch as beer never had been sold in his park, it would not now,” The Washington Post reported, sadly.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

Perhaps we, too, are mosses, evolving to the parch of our self-made Mojaves.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022

Many have fled, heading to neighboring Iran or living in abject poverty in camps for the displaced within Afghanistan as repeated droughts parch the land and shrivel pastures.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021

The soldier loves thee on his dreary march, And when in battle dreadful armies join; ’Tis thou forbids his sulphur’d lips should parch, And gives new strength to charge along the line.

From Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion by Meller, Henry James

The unusual intensity of some of the fires underlines the increasing risk the continent faces as climate change parches vegetation and makes the emergencies more extreme, scientists say.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Hot, dry weather parches the landscape, creating more fuel to feed fires.

From The Verge ● Aug. 6, 2021

When the chicks are older and the summer sun parches the landscape, she will lead them to higher altitudes for water and cooler temperatures.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2018

As people move up the slopes a pattern repeats: drought parches the land, turning grass into kindling.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2018

From April till October hardly a shower falls upon the soil, which parches and cracks in the hot sunshine.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various

He arranged the private screening to symbolically request Robert De Niro’s blessing to play the dangerously charismatic Max Cady, an ex-con parched for revenge against those who had a hand in his imprisonment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

"There's no nutritional value here for them," says Sam Woolford, in a field of parched grass on his family farm in Wiltshire.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The fires in the parched countryside have forced 60,000 people to flee their homes, the interior ministry said, in what officials have called the region's worst fire on record.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

While it may bring some relief to parched gardens, it will not be enough to stop a slide towards more widespread drought conditions.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

For the Entwives were bent and browned by their labour; their hair parched by the sun to the hue of ripe corn and their cheeks like red apples.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Warm weather already appears to be parching vegetation and making it more flammable, as the many blazes that began over the past few days have shown.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

The trend is likely to continue as the climate grows warmer and drier, reducing snowpacks, increasing evaporation and parching soils that absorb runoff.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2022

After a summer of record-smashing heat, parching drought, and roaring wildfires, devastating rains fell on the region from October to December, causing flash floods and mudslides that trapped hundreds of people.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2021

A heat wave will bake Southern California through Thursday, boosting the mercury to dangerously high levels in some inland areas and parching vegetation that could serve as fuel for brush fires, forecasters say.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2020

They already had a pile of birds large enough to fill the biggest parching tray, which Angeline had fetched from the camp.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich