Sekirov Dictionary

parching

adjective 2
noun 2
forms 3

adjective2

•
Causing something or someone to parch; extremely drying.
- Who can unpitying see the flowery race, / Shed by the morn, their new-flush'd bloom resign, / Before the parching beam? — 1749
•
Very thirsty; parched.
- Proceed to nearest canteen and there annex liquor stores. March! Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are […] parching. — 1922

noun2

•
The process of parching or roasting something, such as corn.
- I have already told how we parched sunflower seed; and that I used two or three double-handfuls of seed to a parching. I used two parchings of sunflower seed for one mess of four-vegetables-mixed. — 1917
•
The condition of being parched; absolute dryness.
- Squalid youths with ghastly grin, In hollow bitter roots shall bring, Urine of the unsav'ry goat, To quell the parchings of thy throat. — 1797

forms

parchings · more parching · most parching

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