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  • His mouth was as dry and as parched as the lake.  (source)
  • The tension in the parched earth eased and vanished.  (source)
    parched = dried out (without adequate water)
  • "Water," the voice said in a parched, croaking whisper.  (source)
    parched = dry and very thirsty
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  • Rahim Khan raised the teacup to his parched lips and took a sip.  (source)
    parched = dry and thirsty
  • Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain.  (source)
    parching = drying out (or making thirsty)
  • Envy so parch'd my blood, that had I seen A fellow man made joyous, thou hadst mark'd A livid paleness overspread my cheek.†  (source)
    parch'd = dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty
  • ...parch, like earth denied rain.  (source)
    parch = dry out
  • That only reminded them that they were also parchingly thirsty, without doing anything to relieve them: you cannot quench a terrible thirst by standing under giant oaks and waiting for a chance drip to fall on your tongue.  (source)
    parchingly = in a manner that is excessively dry
  • And as when in late summer the north wind swiftly parcheth a new watered orchard, and he that tilleth it is glad, thus was the whole plain parched, and Hephaistos consumed the dead; then against the river he turned his gleaming flame.†  (source)
    parcheth = dries out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or makes very thirsty
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "It parcheth" in older English, today we say "It parches."
  • We take turns holding our mouths under the tap, wetting our parched tongues.  (source)
    parched = dry (thirsty)
  • The old and weary voice fell like sweet rain upon his quaking parching heart.†  (source)
    parching = drying out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or making very thirsty
  • And I, when he to me outstretch'd his arm, Intently fix'd my ken on his parch'd looks, That although smirch'd with fire, they hinder'd not But I remember'd him; and towards his face My hand inclining, answer'd: "Sir!†  (source)
    parch'd = dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty
  • Stella runs out to the parch, with Eunice following to comfort her, simultaneously with the confused voices of the men in the kitchen.†  (source)
    parch = dry out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or make very thirsty
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