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▸ verb: (transitive) To roast, as dry grain.
▸ verb: (transitive) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
▸ verb: (transitive, colloquial) To make very thirsty.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in parched peas, a type of mushy peas).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become superficially burnt; to become sunburned.
▸ noun: The condition of being parched.
Similar:
scorch,
sear,
bescorch,
scrimple,
burn to a crisp,
burn,
cremate,
forburn,
burn up,
forscald,
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