as in drying
to make dry
the heat has really parched my throat
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Recent Examples of parching
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.
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Literary Hub,
19 Nov. 2025
Drought and long, hot summer days are sucking Western Colorado’s rivers dry, parching farm fields and fueling the massive wildfires proliferating across the region.
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Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
15 Aug. 2025
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
Drought and long, hot summer days are sucking Western Colorado’s rivers dry, parching farm fields and fueling the massive wildfires proliferating across the region.
—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parching
drying
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The assessment also confirmed a 100 percent reduction in water usage for the crops, a critical metric for water-stressed growing regions such as the Texas High Plains, which sits above the rapidly drying Ogallala Aquifer.
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A lot of anti-aging skincare contains ingredients like retinol that can be drying and irritating, but Cetaphil has a possible solution.
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“Parching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parching. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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