About The Word Parch
Learn about the word Parch to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Parch definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Parch
Parch Definition And Meaning |
---|
What's The Definition Of Parch?
[v] cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun parched the earth"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Parch: scorch | sear Related Terms | Find terms related to Parch: air-dry | anhydrate | attenuate | bake | be in heat | blaze | blister | bloom | blot | boil | brand | broil | brush | burn | burn in | burn off | cast | cauterize | char | choke | coal | combust | consume | cook | crack | cupel | cure | dehumidify | dehydrate | desiccate | drain | dry | dry up | emacerate | emaciate | evaporate | exsiccate | fire | flame | flame up | flare | flare up | flicker | flush | found | fry | gasp | glow | incandesce | insolate | kiln | macerate | mummify | oxidate | oxidize | pant | preshrink | pyrolyze | radiate heat | roast | rub | Sanforize | scald | scorch | sear | seethe | shimmer with heat | shrink | shrivel | shrivel up | simmer | singe | smoke | smolder | smother | soak up | solder | spark | sponge | steam | stew | stifle | suffocate | sun | sun-dry | swab | sweat | swelter | swinge | thin | toast | torrefy | towel | vesicate | vulcanize | waste | waste away | weazen | weld | wipe | wither | wizen Parch In Webster's Dictionary \Parch\ (p[aum]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parched}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Parching}.] [OE. perchen to pierce, hence used of a
piercing heat or cold, OF. perchier, another form of percier,
F. percer. See {Pierce}.]
1. To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire,
as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.
Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. --Lev.
xxiii. 14.
2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth
is parched from fever.
The ground below is parched. --Dryden.
\Parch\, v. i. To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry. ``Parch in Afric sun.'' --Shak. |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Dreadful ‐ causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk";…
- Fahrenheit scale ‐ a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water…
- Tetragrammaton ‐ four Hebrew letters (usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh)…
- Research worker ‐ a scientist who devotes himself to…
- Hamitic language ‐ a group of North African languages related…
- Yellow lupine ‐ yellow-flowered European lupine cultivated…
- Israeli ‐ a native or inhabitant of Israel [adj] of or relating to or characteristic…
- Bird-scarer ‐ an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away…
- Smoothbore ‐ of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside…
- Affective disorder ‐ any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities…