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Parching meaning
Causing something or someone to parch; extremely drying. | Very thirsty; parched.
Example sentences (3)
Native Americans used sunflowers – North America’s true native plant – by parching and pounding the inner seed to make cornmeal, extracting the valuable, edible oil – equal to corn oil – and feeding the remaining seed cake to livestock.
After parching and crushing the little sheaf of ears and purifying the barley for grinding, they bring to the altar an assaron for God, and, having flung a handful thereof on the altar, they leave the rest for the use of the priests.
When the air returns to sea level on the other side of the mountains, it recompresses, warms and dries, parching the deserts.