Definitions
Drying, scorching, or making very thirsty.
Word origin
From parch + -ing.
Used in a sentence
“Who can unpitying see the flowery race, / Shed by the morn, their new-flush'd bloom resign, / Before the parching beam?”
“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.”
“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.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Drying with heat”8 letters
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