Definitionv. cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat
Last update: January 10, 2016
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They were parched with thirst, some of them told me. [verb]
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With moisture as with heat, the cultivator must hold his hand somewhat in very severe or very dull weather; but while heat must not drop so as to chill the progressing vegetation, so neither must the lack of moisture parch the plants so as to check their growth. [verb]
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Many can only be seen as crop marks or parch marks from the air, he said. [verb]
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"His corn is not well parched, and it seems dry." [verb]
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Thus thinking he rose, knelt down, and prayed fervently; when at last he came to the 'Amen,' his head was burning, and his tongue parched. [verb]
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Love, friendship, fame, children, everything flows to him as the rivers to the sea, while my heart is parched like the desert. [verb]
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Stephanus tried to call out, but he himself could hardly hear the feeble sound, which, with his wounded breast and parched mouth, he succeeded in uttering. [verb]
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He decided on the latter course; but first he must find fresh water and some sort of nourishment; for his mouth and tongue were quite parched. [verb]
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Later their lips began to parch and seam. [verb]
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Socialism, that tremendous revolutionary wave, was to the victims of a merciless and inhumane system like water to the parched lips of the desert traveler. [verb]
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"The dust in the curtains, if you will pardon me for hinting such a thing, has parched my throat to a crisp." [verb]
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