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US
/ˈpɑɹtʃ/
]
[ UK /pˈɑːtʃ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɑːtʃ/ ]
VERB
-
cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat
The sun parched the earth
How To Use parch In A Sentence
- Parched corn coffee was brewed by mixing roasted corn with boiling water.
- He was gaunt and extremely pale, with parched lips and a beak-like nose.
- The landscaped gardens, once a lush green are now a parched brown. The Sun
- Not nourishing enough for my parched skin! The Sun
- Saith Ponocrates: At Montpelier, John Chouart having bought of the monks of St. Olary a delicate set of decretals, written on fine large parchment of Lamballe, to beat gold between the leaves, not so much as a piece that was beaten in them came to good, but all were dilacerated and spoiled. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- We show above that Hipparchus' and Ptolemy 's arguments are based on an implicit false premise - that one would feel the motion.
- I put the parchment down on the board, loosely, without fastening it. THE CALLIGRAPHER
- The principles underlying political speech apply in the Internet context just as easily as they did when parchment was all the rage.
- Neither the eparch nor the garrison commander presumed to quarrel with Rhavas or to shout out Stylianos 'name. Bridge of the Separator
- Under these patriarchates and exarchates came the eparchies under metropolitans; they had under them the bishops of the various cities. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy