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单词 parched
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parched

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.

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parched

British English: parched ADJECTIVE
ground, 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 ADJECTIVE
mouth 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 ADJECTIVE
person 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

(adjective) 
Showers poured down upon the parched earth.
Synonyms
dried out or up
dry
a hard, dry desert landscape
withered
scorched
arid
the arid zones of the country
torrid
the torrid heat of summer in Spain
shrivelled
It looked old and shrivelled.
dehydrated
waterless
(adjective) 
After all that exercise, I was parched.
Synonyms
thirsty
If a baby is thirsty, it feeds more often.
dry
She was suddenly dry.
dehydrated
drouthy (Scottish)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of arid
Definition
having little or no rain
the arid zones of the country
Synonyms
dry,
desert,
dried up,
barren,
sterile,
torrid,
parched,
waterless,
moistureless
in the sense of dry
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
in the sense of dry
Definition
thirsty
She was suddenly dry.
Synonyms
thirsty,
dehydrated,
parched,
dying of thirst,
gasping,
longing for a drink

Nearby words of
parched

  • parcel
  • parcel something out
  • parch
  • parched
  • parching
  • pardon
  • pardon me

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parched

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Synonyms of 'parched'

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of shrivelled
It looked old and shrivelled.
Synonyms
withered,
dry,
dried up,
wrinkled,
shrunken,
wizened,
desiccated,
sere (archaic)
in the sense of torrid
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
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