PARCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parch mean? 

• PARCH (verb)
  The verb PARCH has 1 sense:

1. cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat

  Familiarity information: PARCH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARCH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they parch    ... he / she / it parches   
Past simple: parched   
Past participle: parched   
-ing form: parching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

parch; sear

Context example:

The sun parched the earth

Hypernyms (to "parch" is one way to...):

dry; dry out (remove the moisture from and make dry)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

All day she lay so, only rousing now and then to mutter, "Water!" with lips so parched they could hardly shape the word.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I feel yet parched with horror, nor can I reflect on that terrible moment without shuddering and agony.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine in "Star Wars" looks like a parched, sandy desert world.

(Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable, NASA)

In the parched grasslands and savannas, or drylands, of Africa, South America and Asia, termite mounds store nutrients and moisture and via internal tunnels, allow water to better penetrate the soil.

(Dirt mounds made by termites in Africa, South America, Asia could prevent spread of deserts, NSF)

She did not dream of the volcanic convulsions of love, its scorching heat and sterile wastes of parched ashes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We moistened the parched lips, and the patient quickly revived.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For that matter, high-strung and finely sensitive, the ill treatment had flung him into a fever, which was fed by the inflammation of his parched and swollen throat and tongue.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

As the number of droughts increases globally, scientists from Oklahoma State University are working to develop predictions of how future parched conditions will affect plants, especially trees.

(What's killing trees during droughts?, National Science Foundation)

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)