PARCHING

Definitions: PARCHING

PARCHING

Adjective

1. Scorching; burning; drying.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Parch

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PARCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Crosswords: PARCHING

Specialty definitions using "PARCHING": Winds. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Kaschmir in Parching : Szenen aus der Gegenwart (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	The old and weary voice fell like sweet rain upon his quaking parching heart.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"PARCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "PARCHING" is used about 3 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	66.67%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Language		Translations for "PARCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që të përvëlon. (various references)

Arabic		‏محمص (baked), ‏متعطش (thirsty). (various references)

Bulgarian		пресъхващ. (various references)

Chinese		烘 (Parch, Parched). (various references)

French		grillé, assoiffé. (various references)

German		röstend (roasting, toasting). (various references)

Hungarian		aszaló. (various references)

Italian		bruciante (burning). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		枯燥 (drying up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"そう (drying up). (various references)

Korean		�"싹 말림. (various references)

Manx		lommanagh (baring, blighting, nipping, scorching), gassagh (aerated, gaseous, gassy, stemmed). (various references)

Pig Latin		archingpay.(various references)

Portuguese		seco (arid, chippy, curt, dabby, dried, dry, hacking, jeroboam, rainless, sapless, sear, seared, seasoned, sec, sere, stale, thirsty, undamped), que faz secar, abrasador (burning, scorching, sweaty, torrid, tropic, tropical). (various references)

Russian		палящий (blistering, torrid). (various references)

Scottish		furadh (parching corn), fuirearadh (a parching of corn), eararadh (a parching of corn in a pot before grinding: *air-aradh). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sasušen (dried, parched, sloughy), ogoleo. (various references)

Spanish		tórrido (torrid). (various references)

Swedish		förtorkning (drying, withering), brännande (ardent, burning, caustic, crucial, fiery, searing, sharp, vital). (various references)

Turkish		yakıcı (bitter, burner, burning, piquant, poignant, scorching, torrid), kavurucu (boiling, broiling, scorching, torrid). (various references)

Ukranian		спекотливий, пекучий (baking, burning, scorching, sizzling, stinging, sultry, torrid). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	arentem. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"PARCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apchin, Paarshin, Parchine, Parshin, pauchling, pearcing, pecheneg, perchen, pierching. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-p-r"
	-1 letter: arching, carping, chagrin, charing, craping, graphic, harping.
	-2 letters: aching, arcing, caring, grinch, haring, harpin, inarch, pacing, painch, paring, racing, raping.
	-3 letters: acing, aping, cairn, carpi, chain, chair, chang, china, chirp, cigar, garni, grain, graph, naric, panic, parch, pinch, prang, ranch.
	-4 letters: agin, airn, arch, cain, caph, carn, carp, chap, char, chia, chin, chip, crag, crap, gain, girn, gnar, gran, grin, grip, hair, hang, harp, inch, narc, nigh, nipa, pain, pair, pang, pian, pica, pina, ping, pirn, prig, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rich, ring.
	-5 letters: ain, air, ani, arc, can, cap, car, chi, cig, gan, gap, gar, ghi, gin, gip, hag, hap, hic, hin, hip, ich, nag, nah, nap, nip, pac, pah, pan, par, phi, pia, pic, pig, pin, rag, rah, ran, rap, ria, rig, rin, rip.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-p-r"
	+1 letter: preaching, scarphing.
	+2 letters: chaptering, purchasing, repatching, upreaching.
	+3 letters: approaching, chaperoning, granophyric, graphicness, iconography, monographic, nomographic, parachuting, phonogramic, preachingly, renographic, reproaching.
	+4 letters: angiographic, camphorating, cheeseparing, ethnographic, iconographer, iconographic, outpreaching, pantographic, phonogrammic, phonographic, planographic, pornographic, preachifying, repurchasing, scenographic, scintigraphy, stenographic.
	+5 letters: anthropogenic, cheeseparings, chronographic, cinematograph, gonadotrophic, graphicnesses, hectographing, iconographers, iconographies, micrographing, oceanographic, phrenological, prepurchasing, reproachingly, scenographies, scintigraphic, sharecropping, supercharging.
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