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parched 音标拼音: [p'ɑrtʃt] a. 炒过的,焦的,干透的 炒过的,焦的,干透的 parched adj 1: 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" [ synonym: { adust}, { baked}, { parched}, { scorched}, { sunbaked}] 2: toasted or roasted slightly; " parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet" 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] 53 Moby Thesaurus words for " parched": Sanforized, 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, 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
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