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Webster 1913 Edition
parching
parch′ing
(pärch′ĭng)
, Adj.
Scorching; burning; drying.
“Summer’s parching heat.” Shak.
– Parch′ing-ly
, adv.
Webster 1828 Edition
Parching
P`ARCHING
,ppr.
1.
a. Having the quality of burning or drying; as the parching heat of African sands.Definition 2024
parching
parching
English
Adjective
parching (comparative more parching, superlative most parching)
- Capable of causing something to parch.
- 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
- The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. […] Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
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- (of thirst) Extreme.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
Verb
parching
- present participle of parch