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dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty

parched = dried out

parched = dry

parched = dried out

It was parched country, for the rains had not yet come north, and the streams ran nearly empty.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato

parched = dry or thirsty

"Pa, try to take some water," she'd say, lifting his head and holding a glass to his cracked, parched lips.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree

parched = dried out

We take turns holding our mouths under the tap, wetting our parched tongues.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

parched = dry (thirsty)

"Water," the voice said in a parched, croaking whisper.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

parched = dry and very thirsty

His head began to ache and his eyes to burn, and his mouth felt parched.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die

parched = dried out or very thirsty

A bowl of thin cabbage soup, half burned, was as welcome to them as rain to parched earth.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

parched = dried out by heat

We hadn't had a drop of rain since that double-rainbow hailstorm back in January, and the whole world was looking parched.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees

parched = dried out by heat (thirsty in a metaphorical sense)

Below them, the ground looked parched, with only occasional roads, cactuses, brush.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment

parched = dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

It was a warm, bubbly, mushy nectar, sweet and tangy. It felt like heaven as it flowed over his dry mouth and down his parched throat.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

parched = dry from thirst

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

parched = dry

"Now, Pheoby, don't feel too mean wid de rest of 'em 'cause dey's parched up from not knowin' things."
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

parched = dried out

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.
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet

parching = drying out (or making thirsty)

It allays a feverish thirst that had parched me for many days.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark

parched = dried out; or made to feel thirsty

Our limbs numb with cold despite the running our throats parched, famished, breathless, on we went.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

parched = dry from thirst

He had parched hands and a face hacked as if by baseball cleats.
Victor Martinez -- Parrot in the Oven

parched = dried out (as though by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight)

He ate another piece of jerky and a handful of parched corn, waiting for the dark.
Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony

parched = dried out

Meanwhile, I thought I might be dying of thirst, and my parched throat was driving me onward to water and perhaps safety.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

parched = dried out

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