(v. t.) To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.
(v. t.) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever.
(v. i.) To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry.
Example Sentences:
(1) This has led to parched soils and difficult growing conditions for farmers, as well as to river levels that are dangerously low for wildlife.
(2) "Because of the heat, lakes and other water bodies have been reduced to parched land, making dehydration common in such birds," said Neeraj Srivastava, a wildlife campaigner.
(3) In Garbey, a village in a parched landscape of rocky soil covered with a thin layer of sand, with very few trees, the men are building a rock wall to channel the next rains, due in June-July, into the reservoir.
(4) A bigger rise of 3-4C — the smallest increase we can prudently expect to follow inaction — would parch continents, turning farmland into desert.
(5) "I was standing on the public path looking at the grass near the stones and thinking we needed to find a longer hosepipe to get the parched patches to green up," he said.
(6) Record El Niño set to cause hunger for 10 million poorest, Oxfam warns Read more The chance of a drier than normal October for southern Australia is about 70%, with the probability rising to 80% in Victoria where the state government is attempting to find ways to get water to parched areas in the west of the state.
(7) Any heavy rainfall will be welcome news for thirsty California, parched for the last four years by a historic dry period.
(8) On the parched grass not far from the India Gate monument at the centre of Delhi, they stretch, breathe and meditate.
(9) (5) The measures to prevent cooking loss are (a) eating the boiled food with the soup, (b) addition of small amount of salt (about 1% NaCl) in boiling, (c) avoidance of too much boiling, (d) selection of a cooking method causing less mineral loss (stewing, frying or parching).
(10) Arrowroot is the mainstay of the Negro infant's diet, while parched flour or sago is consumed by an East Indian infant more frequently.
(11) The air drops came after reports that children among the stranded population were beginning to die of thirst on the bare, parched mountainside.
(12) The surgical procedures we used were 19 subclavian plasty (Waldhausen), 13 end-to-end anastomosis, 13 Alvarez technique and three goterex parch.
(13) Six patients underwent surgery, 5 with an enlargement parch and 1 with a butterfly parch.
(14) Governor Jerry Brown is championing a proposed $14bn (£9bn) tunnel system to divert water from northern California to southern California's parched cities and farms.
(15) Forecasters have predicted that the south-west monsoon could arrive over the southern state of Kerala as early as today, but it is unlikely to reach the parched north before the end of June.
(16) Why devote a whole page to California’s drought ( In parched California, there’s still plenty of water for nut trees – and for Nestlé’s bottles , 20 April) without questioning why this is happening?
(17) Supplementary feedings often started in late infancy include gruels made from arrowroot, parched flour, and cereal.
(18) (3) The loss of thiamin largest in boiling, followed by baking, parching and frying.
(19) The deep grooves of grief in his brow, his sunken, woeful eyes and dry parched lips a perspicacious sculpture carved in anticipation of this slap of indignity.
(20) The waiting list has grown to three years, leaving many farmers to contemplate parched fields and ruin in what has been one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions.
Wither
Definition:
(n.) To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
(n.) To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies.
(n.) To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.
(v. t.) To cause to fade, and become dry.
(v. t.) To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture.
(v. t.) To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny.
Example Sentences:
(1) It ended with a withering putdown: “I’m leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before ,” Juncker told his host.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho launched a withering attack on the lack of atmosphere generated by Chelsea’s home supporters after their 2-1 victory against QPR , saying it felt like his side were playing at an “empty stadium”.
(3) Though intraspinal narcotic analgesia is associated with a number of side effects, with proper knowledge these adverse reactions are wither preventable or can be greatly reduced.
(4) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
(5) They may be in power, but institutional support is withering away.
(6) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
(7) But if the coalition does keep together for four more years, then that's four more years of Lib Dem withering and four more years to gather a treasure chest to reward Tory voters.
(8) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(9) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
(10) There is a brief compensatory detour into the wonders Blair worked in Northern Ireland, but the essential verdict remains withering.
(11) Her original concept was that he might shed the kingly mantle, be just a poor player strutting, but he couldn’t get out fast enough from his prosthetic withered arm.
(12) Faced with the audience, some of the candidates flourished; others withered.
(13) Covers followed including versions of Bill Withers's Who Is He (And What Is He To You?)
(14) Katya Gorchinskaya, deputy editor of the Kyiv Post, said that after years of corruption and budget starvation, Ukraine's army resembled a "withered muscle".
(15) Less noticed, because less obviously political, are current intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
(16) Capital was more rewarded than labour, regions withered and exports and manufacturing suffered.
(17) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
(18) Press lobbying On the press lobbying for self-regulation, Leveson is withering, saying he does not find "the self-interested lobbying of the press to be an appropriate matter for press regulation".
(19) The major component of vitellogenin labeled wither in vivo or in culture has a molecular weight of approximately 180,000 as shown by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(20) A review of chloroquine and sulfa-antifol combination treated falciparum malaria patients revealed a high incidence of chloroquine-resistance, wither R1 or R2, in patients infected in Southeast Asia or Oceania.