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Meaning of PARCHED

Pronunciation:  pârtsht

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  toasted or roasted slightly; "parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet"
  2. [adj]  dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats"
 
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 Synonyms: adust, baked, cooked, dry, scorched, sunbaked
 

 

 

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 Related Terms: adust, ashen, ashy, athirst, attenuated, baked, blistered, burned, burnt, burnt-up, consumed, consumed by fire, corky, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dried-up, droughty, dry, emacerated, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated, gutted, incinerated, mummified, preshrunk, pyrographic, pyrolyzed, Sanforized, scorched, sear, seared, sere, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, singed, sunbaked, sunburned, sun-dried, thin, thirsting, thirsty, wasted, wasted away, weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizen, wizened, wizen-faced
 

 

 

 

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