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Definition of Parched

1. Adjective. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight. "Sunbaked salt flats"

2. Adjective. Toasted or roasted slightly. "Parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet"

Definition of Parched

1. Adjective. Dry. ¹

2. Adjective. Thirsty. ¹

3. Verb. (past of parch) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Parched

1. parch [v] - See also: parch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parched

parcellate parcellated parcellates parcellating parcellation parcellations parcelled parcelling parcels parcelwise

parcenaries parcenary parcener parceners parch parched (current term) parchedness parcheesis parches parchesi

parchesis parching parchingly parchisi parchisis parchment parchment crackling parchments

Literary usage of Parched

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Emporium of Arts and Sciences by John Redman Coxe (1814)
"462, 463, Indian corn parched and ground, with bacon or pork and portable soup well seasoned. I am glad to find by the papers of this week before me, ..."

2. English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs (1866)
"The ancient town of " Proud Preston," in Lancashire, from the year 1771 to 1841, a period of seventy years, boasted its " Oyster and parched-Pea Club. ..."

3. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"The herbage is parched and withered ; the brooks and streams are dried up ; the buffalo, the elk and the deer have wandered to distant parts, keeping within ..."

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