as in to dry
to make dry
the heat has really parched my throat
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Recent Examples of parch
If your skin is feeling parched and tight, a few simple steps can help bring back some of your pregnancy glow.
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Alex Vance, Parents, 10 Dec. 2025
Alegria also sees wild rice production growing using the traditional Indigenous methods of drying, parching, dancing and winnowing at rice camps in northern Wisconsin.
—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
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Alex Vance, Parents, 10 Dec. 2025
Alegria also sees wild rice production growing using the traditional Indigenous methods of drying, parching, dancing and winnowing at rice camps in northern Wisconsin.
—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
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Many of our daily hygiene routines are dependent on the energy grid—warm water to bathe in and wash your face with, lights to do your makeup, electricity to dry your hair.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
24 Feb. 2026
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Vouchers will be exchangeable for a laundry card preloaded with $8 in credit, which will cover two wash cycles at any temperature and three 10-minute drying cycles.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
24 Feb. 2026
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Move the pot into brighter light, keeping in mind that direct sun can scorch the leaves.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
22 Feb. 2026
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And, yes, Jung is scorching balls out of the gate.—
Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Parch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parch. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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