As the smoke wafts my way, my nostrils begin twitching, my throat becomes parched, and my resulting cough wakes me up.
A typical group of parasynonyms contains: sweltering and breathless; parched; burning; searing and sear; scorching, scorched, and scorcher;, and roasting, roaster.
For the purposes of recording and interpretation, parch marks are regarded as a specialised sub-category of crop mark.
To-day some of the great municipalities bring water scores of miles through areas which are parched in a dry season.
When he talks of this prairie as being parched, there are two sides to that question.
At all events we know that the prairie is parched.
It would go no way at all towards quenching the thirst of the parched.
I do not pretend that you might not drop these matches safely when the ground is not parched, or when there is not so much inflammatory material about.
