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

The parch begins in autumn, just as trees across the region shed their colorful leaves—a highly flammable fuel for wildfires.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 23, 2023

Both developments, he said, are caused by rising global temperatures, which intensify storms during some seasons, then parch the landscape during others.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 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

My throat was hot and sticky with the parch of thirst, but as night fell the jungle began to loom darkly, a forbidding hinterland, and no fresh water came down to my beach.

From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

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

The Great Salt Lake has already shrunk by two-thirds, as a broad swath of Utah around it parches.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

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

Many of them had been fighting since that morning, and nothing parches tire mouth so much as biting cartridges.

From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

A wetter outlook for late autumn and into winter will bring some relief to parched regions for the UK.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

It ignited near a hiking trail in the parched hills just northwest of the city on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

A scorching summer has shrunk rivers, parched crops and tested the continent’s infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The apple harvest in Germany is also expected to take a hit from the parched weather, Germany's Federal Statistical Office said in a report also released Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

She tossed her head and heaved herself through the foam, ignoring the sticks and rocks that beat against her legs, ignoring the urge to stop and fill her parched mouth.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

They are fighting a perilous battle with limited weapons against fires blamed in part on a stronger-than-usual episode of the El Nino climate phenomenon parching Southeast Asia.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

On the other hand, when the sponge dries out, it has even more capacity to suck up moisture from the soil and plants below, parching the landscape and turning it into tinder.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2025

“California taxpayers,” he added, “shouldn’t have to foot the bill for billions of dollars in damages — wildfires wiping out entire communities, toxic smoke clogging our air, deadly heat waves, record-breaking droughts parching our wells.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2023

It is a remarkable reversal from 2021, the season of scorching temperatures and parching drought that devastated farms throughout Western Canada.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2022

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