parch
verb (used with object)
to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
will parch
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future tenseof parch.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The grapefruity cooler called the paloma, historically underappreciated at these latitudes, will parch an unprecedented number of thirsts.
From Slate ● May 3, 2013
"In this sun the meat will parch very quickly."
From Jack Haydon's Quest by John Jellicoe
The heat will parch the earth, So that flowers will wilt and droop their charm.
From Some Broken Twigs by Clara M. Beede
Tolla, a seed used to make Oyl, with which they anoint themselves; and sometimes they will parch it and eat it with Jaggory, a kind of brown Sugar.
These fasts from sleep will parch your young brains.
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
