All 7 Uses
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The Heritage of the Desert
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- But you can't come in here and take our water for your own use, to supplant us, to parch our stock.†
Chpt 2parch = dry out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or make very thirsty
- No moisture reached the parched desert.†
Chpt 6 *parched = dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty
- But it was only through Eschtah's eyes that he saw its parched slopes, its terrifying desolateness, its sleeping death.†
Chpt 12
- Hare plodded onward, stopping once to tie another moccasin on Wolf's worn paw, this time the left one; and often he pulled the stopper from the water-bag and cooled his parching lips and throat.†
Chpt 14parching = drying out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or making very thirsty
- Hare crawled out, stiff and sore, hungry and parching with thirst.†
Chpt 15
- Silvermane's blood was heated; the desert was an old story to him; it had only tired him and parched his throat; this canyon of downward steps and falls, with ever-deepening drops, was new to him, and roused his mettle; and from his long training in the wilds he had gained a marvellous sure-footedness.†
Chpt 15parched = dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty
- The parched plants of the desert fought for life, growing far apart, sending enormous roots deep to pierce the sand and split the rock for moisture, arming every leaf with a barbed thorn or poisoned sap, never thriving and ever thirsting.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(parched) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)