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parch

verb as in dry, burn

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Example Sentences

Meanwhile, heat-parched forests in Portugal and Spain went up in flames as wildfires raged.

Drought is parching farmlands and the rivers that feed them.

It is nonsensical to parch one's throat with thirst when a kindly Mahomedan is ready to offer pure water to drink.

They first parch and then pound it between two stones until it is reduced to a fine meal.

What they gave me did rather parch and dry up my body, and made me probably worse than otherwise I might have been.

She persuaded the women of the land to parch with fire the seed of the corn that their husbands sowed in the earth.

You shall always blow in the hot, dry weather, and shall parch and shrivel all living things.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to parch, such as: evaporate, scorch, sear, blister, brown, and dehydrate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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