as in dried
to make dry
the heat has really parched my throat
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Recent Examples of parched
Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
This is lavish luxury offering complimentary complexion perfection in a parched environment that typically causes wrinkles, a devastated dermis, and your exiting the plane looking tired and haggard.
—Debbi Kickham, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
Graydon Carter, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Instead, there’s a vague end-of-days feel to the film’s parched, shadowy visuals, as Zabaleta’s prowling camera renders the layout of the home smaller with each passing minute.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
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Verb
And lo, like a rain cloud over a parched valley, here comes Amazon boss Andy Jassy to shower us with fresh fear and dread.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
This is lavish luxury offering complimentary complexion perfection in a parched environment that typically causes wrinkles, a devastated dermis, and your exiting the plane looking tired and haggard.
—Debbi Kickham, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
Adjective
This was in the days before bottled water, and by the time we were picked up, we were parched.
—Graydon Carter, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Instead, there’s a vague end-of-days feel to the film’s parched, shadowy visuals, as Zabaleta’s prowling camera renders the layout of the home smaller with each passing minute.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parched
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The exterior of that building, a large commercial and industrial structure, was scorched by the flames but the firefighters managed to keep that adjacent building from become involved in the blaze.—
George Avalos,
The Mercury News,
31 Dec. 2024
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That fire scorched 153,000 acres, destroyed 18,800 structures and killed 85 people.—
Laurence Darmiento,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Instead, an occasionally bleak corniche winds down the coast from a state-of-the-art seaport — strategically placed 70 kilometers from the Strait of Hormuz — past a dusty, sunbaked town of old office towers, hotels, the obligatory shopping mall, and streets of low-rise shops and houses.—
Camilla Wright,
semafor.com,
11 July 2025
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The delegations, escorted around town and guarded by scores of Swiss police, met for at least a dozen hours on both days of the weekend at a sunbaked 18th-century villa that serves as the official residence of the Swiss ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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For the last half-century, America’s population growth has been concentrated in the sweltering, equal parts bone-dry and waterlogged, yet ever-sprawling Sunbelt.—
Marina Bolotnikova,
Vox,
7 July 2025
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Central Texas is currently home to some of the worst drought in the United States and bone-dry soils flood very quickly.—
Renée Rigdon,
CNN Money,
7 July 2025
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“Parched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parched. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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