Usually means: Extremely dry, needing moisture desperately.
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  1. parched: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. parched: Merriam-Webster
  3. parched: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. parched: Collins English Dictionary
  5. parched: Vocabulary.com
  6. Parched, parched: Wordnik
  7. parched: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. parched: Wiktionary
  9. Parched, parched: Dictionary.com
  10. parched: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Parched: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Parched: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. parched: Rhymezone
  14. parched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. parched: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. parched: FreeDictionary.org
  17. parched: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. parched: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parched: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Parched: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (parched)

▸ adjective:  Dry.
▸ adjective:  Very thirsty.

Similar:
scorched, adust, dry, sunbaked, cooked, baked, droughted, withered, dried up, sun-dried, more...

Opposite:
moist, damp, wet

Types:
thirsty, drought, arid, desert, more...

Phrases:
parched ground, Parched with Thirst Am I and Dying, parched state, more...

Colors:
    beige,     sand,     tan,     khaki,     taupe, more...



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Similar:
scorched, adust, dry, sunbaked, cooked, baked, droughted, withered, dried up, sun-dried, more...

Opposite:
moist, damp, wet

Types:
thirsty, drought, arid, desert, more...

Phrases:
parched ground, Parched with Thirst Am I and Dying, parched state, more...

Colors:
    beige,     sand,     tan,     khaki,     taupe, more...



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