parch
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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
And snow and rain inself is better than a drought, that would parch the whole countryside, and bleach every blade of grass in the fields as white as linen.”
From The Whale and the Grasshopper And other Fables by O'Brien, Seumas
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