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Parch   /pɑrtʃ/   Listen
Parch

verb
(past & past part. parched; pres. part. parching)
1.
Cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat.  Synonym: sear.





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"Parch" Quotes from Famous Books



... sun doth parch the green, Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice, In temperate heat where he is felt and seen, In presence pressed of people mad or wise, Set me in high, or yet in low degree, In longest night, or in the shortest day, In clearest sky, or where clouds thickest be, In lusty ...
— Tudor and Stuart Love Songs • Various
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... punishments which you have ordained: for first the Asse shall be slaine as you have determined, and she shall have her members torne and gnawn with wild beasts, when as she is bitten and rent with wormes, shee shall endure the paine of the fire, when as the broyling heat of the Sunne shall scortch and parch the belly of the Asse, shee shall abide the gallows when the Dogs and Vultures shall have the guts of her body hanging in their ravenous mouthes. I pray you number all the torments which she shall suffer: First shee shall dwell within ...
— The Golden Asse • Lucius Apuleius
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... Brython: Cylchgrawn Llenyddol Cymru; dan olygiad y Parch. D. Silvan Evans. 5 vols. ...
— The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology • Edwin Sidney Hartland
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Words linked to "Parch" :   dry out, dry


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