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View usage for: (pɑːʳtʃt) 1. adjectiveIf something, especially the ground or a plant, is parched, it is very dry, because there has been no rain. The clouds gathered and showers poured down upon the parched earth. ...a hill of parched brown grass. Synonyms: dried out or up, dry, withered, scorched More Synonyms of parched 2. adjectiveIf your mouth, throat, or lips are parched, they are unpleasantly dry. 3. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]If you say that you are parched, you mean that you are very thirsty. [informal] More Synonyms of parched parched in British English (pɑːtʃt) adjective1. dried up as a result of being deprived of water Rainfall in this parched landscape can seem so miraculous that some people call itGod water. The clouds gathered and showers poured down upon the parched earth. a hill of parched brown grass 2. unpleasantly dry He licked his lips to moisten his parched mouth. She touched her wet fingertips to her parched lips. If your skin is parched and flaky, moisturize it with balms and creams. 3. informal very thirsty I'm parched! Examples of 'parched' in a sentenceparched Not nourishing enough for my parched skin!Not nourishing enough for my parched skin!Maybe a walk in the parched hills?Much better to take a relaxed approach to the parched browns of high summer.The parched earth cracked under your feet.The parched fields of grass and crops that wilted in the recent heat wave were not all bad news.Although showers returned in May the rain could not filter through the parched ground.What the parched ground did not take from him, the numerous fighting factions in his country did.Away from the city, the parched earth crumbles and coats cars and humans in a clogging dust.When the ground is parched it behaves like a huge radiator, soaking up solar energy and then heating the air above.And the parched ground is affecting badgers, who find it more difficult to dig for worms and bugs under the soil.There's no parched grass, no blustery sky.He shows me a picture of some parched earth in India, shaking his head.You're not going to be able to put it in a bottle and go and sprinkle it on parched earth that hasn't been properly fertilised. In other languagesparched British English: parched ADJECTIVEground, plant If something, especially the ground or a plant, is parched, it is very dry, because there has been no rain. The clouds gathered and showers poured down upon the parched earth. - American English: parched
- Brazilian Portuguese: morto de sede
- Chinese: 干透的
- European Spanish: reseco
- French: desséché
- German: ausgetrocknet
- Italian: riarso
- Japanese: 干からびた
- Korean: > 바싹 마른가물어
- European Portuguese: morto de sede
- Latin American Spanish: reseco
British English: parched ADJECTIVEmouth If your mouth, throat, or lips are parched, they are unpleasantly dry. Her throat was parched, and she was exhausted from all the walking. - American English: parched
- Brazilian Portuguese: morto de sede
- Chinese: 干渴的
- European Spanish: reseco
- French: desséché
- German: ausgetrocknet
- Italian: riarso
- Japanese: 乾いた
- Korean: 몸시 건조한
- European Portuguese: morto de sede
- Latin American Spanish: reseco
British English: parched ADJECTIVEperson If you say that you are parched, you mean that you are very thirsty. When I told them I was parched, they went and got me a bottle of mineral water. - American English: parched
- Brazilian Portuguese: morto de sede
- Chinese: 口渴的
- European Spanish: muerto de sed
- French: assoiffé
- German: am Verdursten
- Italian: assetato
- Japanese: からからの
- Korean: 몸시 목마른
- European Portuguese: morto de sede
- Latin American Spanish: muerto de sed
Showers poured down upon the parched earth. Synonyms dried out or up withered scorched dehydrated waterless After all that exercise, I was parched. Synonyms dehydrated drouthy (Scottish) Additional synonymsDefinition having little or no rain the arid zones of the country Synonyms dry, desert, dried up, barren, sterile, torrid, parched, waterless, moistureless Definition having little or no rainfall a hard, dry desert landscape Synonyms dehydrated, dried-up, baked, arid, scorched, torrid, parched, desiccated, bone dry, waterless, rainless, juiceless, sapless, moistureless Definition thirsty She was suddenly dry. Synonyms thirsty, dehydrated, parched, dying of thirst, gasping, longing for a drink - parcel
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Additional synonymsIt looked old and shrivelled. Synonyms withered, dry, dried up, wrinkled, shrunken, wizened, desiccated, sere (archaic) Definition (of weather) so hot and dry as to parch or scorch the torrid heat of summer in Spain Synonyms hot, tropical, burning, dry, boiling, flaming, blistering, stifling, fiery, scorched, scorching, sizzling, arid, sultry, sweltering, parched, parching, broiling |