as in to dry
to make dry
the heat has really parched my throat
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Recent Examples of parch
Alegria also sees wild rice production growing using the traditional Indigenous methods of drying, parching, dancing and winnowing at rice camps in northern Wisconsin.
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Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 4 Dec. 2025
Wind is a familiar thing, a thing whose very existence brings a kind of reassurance—yearned-for when absent, delighting when gentle, accursed when either biting cold or parching hot, feared when violent.
—Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
Yet Iran's National Weather Forecasting Center notes that overall rainfall remains roughly 89 percent below long-term averages, leaving much of the country parched.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
Plus, there will be Halloween cocktail specials for the particularly parched.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025
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Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 4 Dec. 2025
Wind is a familiar thing, a thing whose very existence brings a kind of reassurance—yearned-for when absent, delighting when gentle, accursed when either biting cold or parching hot, feared when violent.
—Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
Yet Iran's National Weather Forecasting Center notes that overall rainfall remains roughly 89 percent below long-term averages, leaving much of the country parched.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
Plus, there will be Halloween cocktail specials for the particularly parched.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025
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Silgranit sinks can be cleaned with a mixture of dish soap and vinegar, which will need to sit for at least an hour if there are any hard water deposits before being rinsed and dried.—
Lauren Wicks,
Southern Living,
10 Feb. 2026
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This quick-drying pick is offered in three colors and is a great place to store wet sponges and scrubbers, as well as soap dispensers.—
Jamie Weissman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Feb. 2026
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Simpler cooking, community…and Nico Ruspoli, an olive oil producer with his own scorched past.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
7 Feb. 2026
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The hard X-ray peak came first, intense and quickly, followed by a longer, scorching soft X-ray and optical glow.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Parch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parch. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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