Parch
verb
To make something dry by sucking out the water.
The hot sun had parched the grass.
Often appears as...
- parched soil
- parched lips
verb
To make your mouth, throat, or skin feel extremely dry.
The hot desert sun will parch your skin.
Often appears as...
- parched skin
- parched throat
verb
To roast or toast something, like grains, in heat without burning.
She was parching corn over the fire.
Often appears as...
- parch corn
- parch nuts
Usage tips
Culinary
verb
To make something dry by sucking out the water.
The hot sun had parched the grass.
Often appears as...
- parched soil
- parched lips
verb
To make your mouth, throat, or skin feel extremely dry.
The hot desert sun will parch your skin.
Often appears as...
- parched skin
- parched throat
verb
To roast or toast something, like grains, in heat without burning.
She was parching corn over the fire.
Often appears as...
- parch corn
- parch nuts
Usage tips
Culinary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Elements
Often used to describe effects of sun, wind, or heat on nature.
The garden was forgotten, and the sun parched the earth.
Pro Tip 2/3Thirst Imagery
Parch implies intense dryness that often suggests a need for water.
Walking through the desert left us with a parching thirst.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Use
Can metaphorically describe a lack of vitality or freshness.
His parched imagination could produce no new ideas.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Elements
Often used to describe effects of sun, wind, or heat on nature.
The garden was forgotten, and the sun parched the earth.
Pro Tip 2/3Thirst Imagery
Parch implies intense dryness that often suggests a need for water.
Walking through the desert left us with a parching thirst.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Use
Can metaphorically describe a lack of vitality or freshness.
His parched imagination could produce no new ideas.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Elements
Often used to describe effects of sun, wind, or heat on nature.
The garden was forgotten, and the sun parched the earth.
Pro Tip 2/3Thirst Imagery
Parch implies intense dryness that often suggests a need for water.
Walking through the desert left us with a parching thirst.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Use
Can metaphorically describe a lack of vitality or freshness.
His parched imagination could produce no new ideas.
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Video examples
Peter Donnelly: How...
And then one of two things will happen. They'll either discover their long-lost cousin in the other corner of the room and run over and talk to them. Or they'll suddenly become parched and/or hungry -- and often both -- and sprint off for a drink and some food. And you'll be left in peace to talk to the person you really want to talk to.
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Safari Live - Day 284 PIPE...
another male might require a little bit more moisture more swallowing power may have either saliva helps them to growl so sort of lubricate their mouth and to allow the internal bits of the mouth to to vibrate a little bit more for example you get a little bit of parched mouth if you want to sing nicely
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David Attenborough Eats...
find a drink somewhere but in other parts of the world where perhaps the winters are bitterly cold or here in the parched deserts of Australia where flowers only bloom after brief rains and it was that rely on nectar have to have some way of storing it to last them
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"The Land That God Had...
completely parched on average the valley gets less than two inches of rain each year some years they don't get any at all in this extreme desolate landscape life is often hidden of course there are common creatures bighorn sheep that live
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The Water of Lost Hills...
That some areas are parched, and some farms are drying up, because who holds the rights to that water? And who is going to benefit most from being able to grow more pistachios and more pomegranates? That's the California story.
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The climate change...
opportunity of this moment is actually coming quite apparent extreme weather Trump's politics and Republicans and Democrats are working together in the flooded ranges of New York and New Jersey and the parched farmlands of
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Remapping A Place: How...
looking for water being parched thirsty imagine coming to this valley and finding this and they said this is this is where we'll stay when you grow old with the community and all of their great great great great great
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Two Cheetahs vs....
seasonal rains bring renewed life to this parched land attracting a herd of wildebeest eager to feast on the succulent sweet grasses that grow in the
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A year in the life of...
Waddling along the parched Australian earth, this female platypus is searching for fresh water.
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The Cutest Elephant...
driven on by thirst they march hundreds of miles across the parched Plains
Video examples
Peter Donnelly: How...
And then one of two things will happen. They'll either discover their long-lost cousin in the other corner of the room and run over and talk to them. Or they'll suddenly become parched and/or hungry -- and often both -- and sprint off for a drink and some food. And you'll be left in peace to talk to the person you really want to talk to.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 284 PIPE...
another male might require a little bit more moisture more swallowing power may have either saliva helps them to growl so sort of lubricate their mouth and to allow the internal bits of the mouth to to vibrate a little bit more for example you get a little bit of parched mouth if you want to sing nicely
Video examples
David Attenborough Eats...
find a drink somewhere but in other parts of the world where perhaps the winters are bitterly cold or here in the parched deserts of Australia where flowers only bloom after brief rains and it was that rely on nectar have to have some way of storing it to last them
Video examples
"The Land That God Had...
completely parched on average the valley gets less than two inches of rain each year some years they don't get any at all in this extreme desolate landscape life is often hidden of course there are common creatures bighorn sheep that live
Video examples
The Water of Lost Hills...
That some areas are parched, and some farms are drying up, because who holds the rights to that water? And who is going to benefit most from being able to grow more pistachios and more pomegranates? That's the California story.
Video examples
The climate change...
opportunity of this moment is actually coming quite apparent extreme weather Trump's politics and Republicans and Democrats are working together in the flooded ranges of New York and New Jersey and the parched farmlands of
Video examples
Remapping A Place: How...
looking for water being parched thirsty imagine coming to this valley and finding this and they said this is this is where we'll stay when you grow old with the community and all of their great great great great great
Video examples
Two Cheetahs vs....
seasonal rains bring renewed life to this parched land attracting a herd of wildebeest eager to feast on the succulent sweet grasses that grow in the
Video examples
A year in the life of...
Waddling along the parched Australian earth, this female platypus is searching for fresh water.
Video examples
The Cutest Elephant...
driven on by thirst they march hundreds of miles across the parched Plains
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Quote examples
Munshi Premchand
Indian Writer
Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the world. Cows give milk, but she doesn't drink it herself - that is left to others. Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
American Businessman
Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.
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Allan Gurganus
American Novelist
To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.
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William John Wills
English Scientist
The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.
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Tatiana Schlossberg
Sometimes it feels hard to remember that Silicon Valley is an actual place, a collage of parched suburbs, and not just the collective noun for information-technology companies.
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Munshi Premchand
Indian Writer
Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the world. Cows give milk, but she doesn't drink it herself - that is left to others. Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness.
Quote examples
Joseph B. Wirthlin
American Businessman
Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.
Quote examples
Allan Gurganus
American Novelist
To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.
Quote examples
William John Wills
English Scientist
The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.
Quote examples
Tatiana Schlossberg
Sometimes it feels hard to remember that Silicon Valley is an actual place, a collage of parched suburbs, and not just the collective noun for information-technology companies.
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