'Parched' definitions:

Definition of 'parched'

(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked]
adjective
Toasted or roasted slightly; "parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet"

Definition of 'Parched'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. --Lev. xxiii. 14. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever. [1913 Webster]
  • The ground below is parched. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

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