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PARCHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Toasted or roasted slightly
Example:
parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet
Classified under:
Similar:
cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
Example:
sunbaked salt flats
Synonyms:
adust; baked; parched; scorched; sunbaked
Classified under:
Similar:
dry (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb parch
Context examples:
I took out my small provisions and after having refreshed myself, I secured the remainder in a cave, whereof there were great numbers; I gathered plenty of eggs upon the rocks, and got a quantity of dry sea-weed, and parched grass, which I designed to kindle the next day, and roast my eggs as well as I could, for I had about me my flint, steel, match, and burning-glass.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I feel yet parched with horror, nor can I reflect on that terrible moment without shuddering and agony.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
"A Mexican with a knife, miss," he answered, moistening his parched lips and clearing his throat.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I attempted to accompany them and proceeded a short distance from the house, but my head whirled round, my steps were like those of a drunken man, I fell at last in a state of utter exhaustion; a film covered my eyes, and my skin was parched with the heat of fever.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
