parched : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: parched	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
parched adj dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats" Synonym(s): adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked toasted or roasted slightly; "parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Parch \Parch\ (p[aum]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Parching}.] [OE. perchen to pierce, hence used of a piercing heat or cold, OF. perchier, another form of percier, F. percer. See {Pierce}.] 1. To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. --Lev. xxiii. 14. 2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever. The ground below is parched. --Dryden.