All 3 Uses of
parched
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- I'm parched.†
Chpt 4 *
- But as before the lightning the serried stormclouds, heavy with preponderant excess of moisture, in swollen masses turgidly distended, compass earth and sky in one vast slumber, impending above parched field and drowsy oxen and blighted growth of shrub and verdure till in an instant a flash rives their centres and with the reverberation of the thunder the cloudburst pours its torrent, so and not otherwise was the transformation, violent and instantaneous, upon the utterance of theā¦†
Chpt 14
- parching.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(parched) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty