All 3 Uses

parched
in
Seventeenth Summer
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The soil in the garden was parched and hard, crisscrossed with wide cracks, and big brown grasshoppers, their wings dusty, were heavy on the bean plants and bared the green stems with their nibblings.†
Chpt July

parched = dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty
The grass on the side lawn was parched brown with irregular scallops of green where the shade of the trees shadowed the ground.
Chpt July *

parched = dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
Out in the country the fields were a parched patchwork and only the trees were still green against the dust-yellow roll of the hills.†
Chpt July

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

Definitions:

(1) (parched)
dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)