Parched

Definitions: Parched

Parched

Adjective

1. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats".

2. Toasted or roasted slightly; "parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet".

Date "parched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Parched

Synonyms: adust (adj), baked (adj), scorched (adj), sunbaked (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Parched

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Agitation	Toss about, jump about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard.
Desire	Adjective: desirous; desiring; Verb: inclined; (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Parched

English words defined with "parched": apparent ♦ bulghur, bulgur, bulgur wheat ♦ evident ♦ manifest ♦ Nocake ♦ parch, Parchedness, patent, Pinole, plain ♦ Rokee ♦ scorch, sear ♦ Torridness ♦ Water-white. (references)

Specialty definitions using "parched": Abdication ♦ Coffee, COIX LACHRYMA-JOBI, Covetous Man ♦ LENS ESCULENTA ♦ Parched ground. (references)

Etymologies containing "parched": Unparched. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Parched

Domain	Title
Books	Dancing in the Desert: Spiritual Refreshment for Your Parched Soul (reference) Gentle Rain on Parched Earth: Worship Resources for Rural Settings (reference) Living Waters for Your Parched Prayers (reference) Raindrops upon the Parched Fields of My Heart (reference) Roots in a Parched Ground ; Convicts ; Lily Dale ; The Widow Claire: The First Four Plays of the Orphans' Home Cycle (The Orphans' Home Cycle, V. 1) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Parched With Thirst Am I & Dyi (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Parched

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Familiar Quotations: Parched

Author	Quotation
Longfellow	It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Parched

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Tom awakened under his willow, and his mouth was parched and his body was wet with sweat, and his head was dissatisfied with his rest.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Parched

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne. Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation. For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her: She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her. To History she'll be no royal riddle -- Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle. G.J.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Parched

"Parched" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 79.76% of the time. "Parched" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	79.76%	67	40,952
Lexical Verb (past participle)	16.67%	14	93,893
Lexical Verb (past tense)	3.57%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	84	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Parched

Expressions using "parched": be parched ♦ be parched with thirst ♦ parched by the sun ♦ parched ground ♦ parched paper. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "parched": parched-looking.
	Ending with "parched": sun-parched.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Parched

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
lip parched	8
parched corn	4
parched peanut	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Parched

Language		Translations for "parched"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i tharë (blasted, bone dry, dried, dried up, dry, gaunt, husky, jerked, jerky, rough-dry, thirsty, withered), i etur (agog, dry, eager, keen, rapacious, ravenous, solicitous, thirsty, voracious, wistful). (various references)

Arabic		‏عطشان, ‏ظمآن (thirsty). (various references)

Bulgarian		изсъхнал (dried, dry, sapless, sere, thirsty), изсушен. (various references)

Chinese		眢 (inflamed eyelids), 烘 (Parch, Parching), 燥 (dry, impatient). (various references)

Czech		vyschlý (seasoned), vyprahlý (adust, torrid), okoralý (crusty, stale). (various references)

Finnish		suutani kuivaa (my mouth feels parched), kuivettua (atrophy, become parched, dry, wither). (various references)

French		desséché, cuit, altéré. (various references)

German		geröstet (burnt, roasted, toasted), röstete (roasted). (various references)

Greek		κατάξηροσ (sear). (various references)

Hebrew		מצומק (shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizened, wrinkled), חרב (arid, cold steel, desolate, destroyed, knife, ruined, steel, sword, waste), צמא (desirous, thirst, thirstiness), צחיח (arid, barren, dry, infertile, torrid, waste). (various references)

Hungarian		kiszáradt (dry, thirsty, weazened, wizen, wizened), aszott (lean, weazened, withered, wizen, wizened). (various references)

Italian		disseccato, assettato, arrostito. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		かも知れない (at all, banter, because, completely, dried-up, from, may, may be, might, out of, perhaps, persiflage, possibly, quite, since, through, utterly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		からから (dried-up). (various references)

Korean		�"싹 말리�". (various references)

Manx		spongit (arid, burnt up, burnt up as fowl, crisp, roasted, shrivelled), spongagh, paagh (thirsty), paa (athirst, thirsty), greddagh (pick-me-up), bolgit (blistered, bloated, dilated, enlarged, filled). (various references)

Pig Latin		archedpay.(various references)

Portuguese		tostar (roast, tan, toast), ressequido (sear, seared, sere, thirsty). (various references)

Romanian		uscat (adust, arenaceous, arid, barren, continent, crusty, dry, earth, fleshless, hungry, husky, land, main, mainland, meager, meagre, sear, sere, shore, shrunken, slack, stale, thirsty, well-seasoned, wizened). (various references)

Russian		запекшийся, пересохший. (various references)

Scottish		tartmhor. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sasušen (dried, parching, sloughy), oprljen, ogoljen (bald, bare, shorn). (various references)

Spanish		tostado (adust, roast, roasting, tan, toasted), seco (barren, curt, dead, dried, dry, hacking, rainless, sere, sharp, short, short-spoken, tired). (various references)

Swedish		torr (arid, barometric millimeter of mercury, barometric millimetre of mercury, clean, droughty, dry, dryness, jejune, millimeter of mercury, millimetre of mercury, mm Hg, sapless, torr, torrid), skadad av torka, förbränd (torrid). (various references)

Turkish		kavrulmuş (burnt, roasted, torrid). (various references)

Ukranian		спалений, засмаглий (adust, weather beaten), підсмажений (toasted). (various references)

Welsh		sychedig (dry, thirsty), crisbin (crisp, withered), cras (arid, dry, harsh). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Parched

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	aream, areas, arentem, ares, areuna, ariditate, aruerunt, aruit, sitiens, sitiensque, sitientem, sitientes, sitienti, sitientibus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Parched

Language	Date	Source	Joshua Chapter 5, Verse 11
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai efagosan apo tou sitou thV ghV azuma kai nea en tauth th hmera
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et comederunt de frugibus terrae die altero azymos panes et pulentam eiusdem anni
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And thei eeten of the fruytis of the erthe that other day, therf looues, and corn powned of the same yeer.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And they ate of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the same day.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And on the day after the Passover, they had for their food the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Parched

Language	Joshua Chapter 5, Verse 11
Bulgarian	И на сутринта на пасхата, в същия ден, ядоха безквасни хлябове от житото на земята и изпържено жито .
Cebuano	Ug sa pagkaugma human ang pasko, nangaon sila sa abut sa yuta, mga tinapay nga walay levadura ug mga sinanglag nga mga trigo, sa maong adlawa gayud.
Chinese	逾越節的次日、他們就喫了那地的出 �"� ．正當那日喫無酵餅、 �'� 烘的穀。
Croatian	A sutradan poslije Pashe, upravo toga dana, blagovali su od uroda one zemlje: beskvasna kruha i pržena zrnja.
Danish	og Dagen efter Påsken spiste de af Landets Afgrøde, usyrede Brød og ristet Korn;
Dutch	En zij aten van het overjarige koren des lands, des anderen daags van het pascha, ongezuurde broden en verzengde aren, even op dienzelven dag.
Finnish	Ja pääsiäisen jälkeisenä päivänä he söivät sen maan tuotteista happamatonta leipää ja paahdettuja jyviä, juuri sinä päivänä.
French	Ils mangèrent du blé du pays le lendemain de la Pâque, des pains sans levain et du grain rôti; ils en mangèrent ce même jour.
German	und aßen vom Getreide des Landes am Tag nach dem Passah, nämlich ungesäuertes Brot und geröstete Körner, ebendesselben Tages.
Haitian Creole	Nan denmen Fèt Delivrans lan, yo manje manje yo rekòlte nan peyi a: grenn ble griye ak pen kwit san ledven.
Hungarian	És evének a föld termésébõl a páskhának másodnapján kovásztalan kenyeret és pörkölt gabonát, ugyanezen a napon.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Besoknya, untuk pertama kalinya mereka makan makanan hasil negeri Kanaan, yaitu: roti tidak beragi dan gandum panggang.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka kemudian dari pada Pasah, pada keesokan harinya, makanlah mereka itu roti fatir dari pada hasil tanah itu dan jagung yang dibakar pada hari itu juga.
Italian	Il giorno dopo la pasqua mangiarono i prodotti della regione, azzimi e frumento abbrustolito in quello stesso giorno.
Korean	� �" � � 이 튿 � 에 그 땅 소 산 을 먹 되 그 � 에 무 교 병 과 볶 은 곡 식 을 먹 었 �" 니
Maori	A, no te aonga ake i te kapenga, i kai ai ratou i te witi o te whenua, he keke kihai i rewenatia, me te witi pahuhu, no taua rangi pu ano.
Modern Greek	Και τη επαυριον του πασχα εφαγον αζυμα απο του σιτου της γης, και σιτον πεφρυγμενον την αυτην εκεινην ημεραν.
Norwegian	Og dagen efter påsken åt de av landets grøde; usyret brød og ristet korn åt de den dag.
Portuguese	E, ao outro dia depois da páscoa, nesse mesmo dia, comeram, do produto da terra, pães ázimos e espigas tostadas.
Rumanian	A doua zi de Pawte au mkncat din grkul yqrii, azimi wi boabe prqjite; chiar kn ziua aceea au mkncat.
Russian	Й ОБ �"ТХЗПК �"ЕОШ рБУИЙ УФБМЙ ЕУФШ ЙЪ � ТПЙЪЧЕ�"ЕОЙК ЪЕНМЙ УЕК, П� ТЕУОПЛЙ Й УХЫЕОЩЕ ЪЕТОБ Ч УБНЩК ФПФ �"ЕОШ;
Spanish	Al día siguiente de la Pascua, en ese mismo día, comieron del producto de la tierra, panes sin levadura y espigas tostadas.
Swedish	Och dagen efter påskhögtiden åto de osyrat bröd och rostade ax av landets säd, just på den dagen.
Thai	วันรุ่งขึ้นหลังวันเทศกาลปัสกา วันนั้นเองเขาก็รับประทานผลอันเกิ�"จากแผ่น�"ิน คือขนมไร้เชื้อและข้าวคั่ว
Ukrainian	А назавтра по Пасці їли вони того самого дня з урожаю того Краю, опрісноки та пражене.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Parched

Misspellings
	"Parched" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pache, Panchaud, Parchym, Parczew, Parkkred, pearched, perche, perchen, piched, porched, porchei, Porkheid, Pracha, Prachar, purched. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Parched"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "parched" (pronounced pÄ"rkht)
4	-Ä" r kh t	arched, marched, starched.
3	-r kh t	scorched, torched.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Parched

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-h-p-r"
	-1 letter: arched, carped, chared, craped, echard, eparch, harped, preach, redcap.
	-2 letters: ached, acred, arced, cadre, caped, caper, cared, cedar, chape, chard, chare, cheap, crape, drape, hared, heard, paced, pacer, padre, parch, pared, peach, perch, raced, raped, raphe, reach, recap.
	-3 letters: aced, ache, acre, aped, aper, arch, cade, cape, caph, card, care, carp, chad, chap, char, crap, dace, dare, dear, each, epha, hade, haed, hard, hare, harp, head, heap, hear, herd, pace, pard, pare, pear, pech, race, rape, read, reap, rhea.
	-4 letters: ace, ape, arc, are, cad, cap, car, cep, dah, dap, ear, edh, era, had, hae, hap, hep, her, pac, pad, pah, par, pea, pec, ped, peh, per, rad, rah, rap, rec, red, rep.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, ah, ar, de, ed, eh, er, ha, he, pa, pe, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-h-p-r"
	+1 letter: preached, scarphed.
	+2 letters: chaptered, hyperacid, pachyderm, purchased, repatched, upreached.
	+3 letters: approached, chaperoned, copperhead, dispatcher, hydrospace, pachyderms, packthread, parachuted, reproached.
	+4 letters: camphorated, cardsharper, comradeship, copperheads, demographic, diaphoretic, dispatchers, handicapper, hydrospaces, ideographic, orthopaedic, outpreached, packthreads, placeholder, preachified, preheadache, repurchased, thunderclap.
	+5 letters: cardsharpers, comradeships, decipherable, demographics, diaphoretics, discographer, handicappers, hectographed, hydrocephaly, hyperacidity, hypercharged, micrographed, orthopaedics, paedomorphic, perichondral, perichondria, placeholders, predischarge, prepurchased, procathedral, sharecropped, supercharged, thunderclaps, unchaperoned.
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