parch
verb (used with object)
to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
had been parching
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past perfect progressiveof parch.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Then he kneeled and drank at the rill, as if he had been parching in a desert for days.
From The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain by Charles L. (Charles Lewis) Wrenn
