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to parched
verb
To burn the surface of, to scorch.
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It's where wet fen gives way to parched sand.
Step away for a moment to sip your cocktail and your fillets might go from pearly to parched.
When your bikini top fell away, my hands caught your breasts, memorizing their delicate weight, my palms cupped as if bringing water to parched lips.
One of the best-known techniques is cloud seeding, a process that attempts to bring rain to parched farmland by dispersing particles of silver iodide or solid carbon dioxide into rain-bearing clouds.
Pipes that were supposed to bring clean drinking water to parched, impoverished communities were laid improperly and burst, requiring the whole job to be done again, according to local officials.
He was at various points accused of being a spy, of buying up land to create a Zionist enclave, and of planning to ship Chile's fresh water to parched lands overseas.
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His enthusiasm, expressed in meandering, enumerative sentences, is intense and catching: "There were light, ethereal lavenders; some were mild and timid; others lush and overbearing; some tart, as if picked from the field and left to parch in large vats of vinegar; others were overwhelmingly sweet.
Liquor can also lead to foulness in breath as it tends to parch the mouth by decreasing oxygen and saliva.
Altynka is a white camel calf fabled to bring rain to the parched steppe.
He is like ET's spindly, sexy older brother as stranded alien Thomas Jerome Newton, seeking to transport water back to his parched planet.
Goapele brings to music what water brings to a parched pallet.
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