'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]
Synonyms of 'parched'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adust,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- athirst,
- attenuated,
- baked,
- blistered,
- burned,
- burnt,
- burnt-up,
- consumed,
- consumed by fire,
- corky,
- dehydrated,
- desiccated,
- dried,
- dried-up,
- droughty,
- dry,
- emacerated,
- emaciated,
- evaporated,
- exsiccated,
- gutted,
- incinerated,
- mummified,
- preshrunk,
- pyrographic,
- pyrolyzed,
- Sanforized,
- scorched,
- sear,
- seared,
- sere,
- shriveled,
- shriveled up,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- singed,
- sun-dried,
- sunbaked,
- sunburned,
- thin,
- thirsting,
- thirsty,
- wasted,
- wasted away,
- weazened,
- wind-dried,
- withered,
- wizen,
- wizen-faced,
- wizened