parchedadjective
uk/pɑːtʃt/us/pɑːrtʃt/parched adjective (VERY DRY)
(especially of earth or crops) dried out because of too much heat and not enough rain:
parched earth/fields/corn
It was the height of summer and the land was parched and brown.
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Dry weather, arid conditions & dryness
- arid
- aridity
- as dry as a bone idiom
- bone
- bone dry idiom
- dehydrate
- desertification
- desiccation
- dried
- dry
- dry (sth) out
- dry up
- dust devil
- frazzled
- parch
- sandstorm
- semi-arid
- subarid
- sun-baked
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parched adjective (VERY THIRSTY)
informal extremely thirsty:
I must get a drink - I'm absolutely parched!
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Hungry & thirsty
- (I'm so hungry), I could eat a horse idiom
- appetite
- be gasping idiom
- eat
- eat like a horse idiom
- empty
- gasp
- hunger
- hungry
- make sb's mouth water idiom
- munchies
- ravenous
- smack
- smack your lips idiom
- starvation
- starved
- starving
- thirst
- thirsty
- unquenchable
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