Usually means: Drying or roasting until brittle.
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  1. parching: Merriam-Webster
  2. parching: Collins English Dictionary
  3. parching: Vocabulary.com
  4. parching: Wordnik
  5. parching: Wiktionary
  6. Parching, parching: Dictionary.com
  7. Parching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. parching: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Parching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. parching: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. parching: FreeDictionary.org
  12. parching: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. parching: Legal dictionary

(Note: See parch as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (parching)

adjective:  Causing something or someone to parch; extremely drying.
adjective:  Very thirsty; parched.
noun:  The process of parching or roasting something, such as corn.
noun:  The condition of being parched; absolute dryness.

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