Meaning

Causing something or someone to parch; extremely drying..

Definitions by Sense

1. Causing something or someone to parch; extremely drying.
2. Very thirsty; parched.
3. present participle and gerund of parch
4. The process of parching or roasting something, such as corn.
5. The condition of being parched; absolute dryness.

Example Sentences

Who can unpitying see the flowery race, / Shed by the morn, their new-flush'd bloom resign, / Before the parching beam?

The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.

The series of these great events began in the year 1333, fifteen years before the plague broke out in Europe: they first appeared in China. Here a parching drought, accompanied by famine, commenced in the tract of country watered by the rivers Kiang and Hoai.

I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.

Proceed to nearest canteen and there annex liquor stores. March! Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are […] parching.

I have already told how we parched sunflower seed; and that I used two or three double-handfuls of seed to a parching. I used two parchings of sunflower seed for one mess of four-vegetables-mixed.

Squalid youths with ghastly grin, In hollow bitter roots shall bring, Urine of the unsav'ry goat, To quell the parchings of thy throat.

Word Forms

• more parching
• most parching
• parchings

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When Should You Use Parching?

Use parching when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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