parch
verb (used with object)
to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
are parching
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present progressiveof parch.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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This takes place by the wetting and warming; for labors are parching.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
His garlands are faded, and what he deems worst, His tongue and his palate are parching with thirst.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Hence it reaches Ceylon comparatively dry, and its general effects are parching and disagreeable.
From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Sir James Emerson Tennent
