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Synonyms for parch

to make or become free of moisture

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Synonyms for parch

cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat

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The herbage is parched and withered; the brooks and streams are dried up; the buffalo, the elk and the deer have wandered to distant parts, keeping within the verge of expiring verdure, and leaving behind them a vast uninhabited solitude, seamed by ravines, the beds of former torrents, but now serving only to tantalize and increase the thirst of the traveller.
Kennedy rushed toward the well, slid down the dampened steps, and flung himself at full length by the side of a fresh spring, in which he plunged his parched lips.
The effect was instantaneous, The flames danced along the parched trunk of the pine like lightning quivering on a chain, and immediately a column of living fire was raging on the terrace.
Never a sign of living thing had the ape-man seen, other than Ska, that bird of ill omen, that had followed him tirelessly since he had entered this parched waste.
Rain, beating heavily upon his body, awakened him and sitting up he cupped his hands and caught the precious drops which he transferred to his parched throat.
I took out my small provisions and after having refreshed myself, I secured the remainder in a cave, whereof there were great numbers; I gathered plenty of eggs upon the rocks, and got a quantity of dry sea-weed, and parched grass, which I designed to kindle the next day, and roast my eggs as well as I could, for I had about me my flint, steel, match, and burning-glass.
The course of meat finished, they spread upon the sheepskins a great heap of parched acorns, and with them they put down a half cheese harder than if it had been made of mortar.
Parch marks, soil marks and frost marks can also reveal buried archaeological sites not visible from the ground.
Parch S4C, 9pm Aeth blwyddyn heibio; blwyddyn o newid byd i'r Parch.
The three handwritten parchments belong to the collection of the Library of the Department of History, Cultures and Religions at University of Rome Sapienza (Figure 1): (i) The "Provvisorio 34 bis 8839/c" (labelled in this paper "Parch. 34"), dating back to the 14th century, is a two-sheet fragment written in Latin.
EGLWYS DEWI SANT, CF10 3DD..31 Ionawr: Pedwerydd Sul yr Ystwyll / Cyflwyniad Crist yn y Deml 8.00am - Y Cymun Bendigaid 10.30am - Y Cymun Bendigaid ar Gan ac Ysgol Sul 6.00pm - Yr Hwyrol Weddi a Phregeth 3 Chwefror: Dydd Mercher, 10.30am - Y Cymun Bendigaid EGLWYS Y CRWYS, Heol Richmond..Heddiw am 2.00 cynhelir Gwasanaeth Sefydlu ein Gweinidog Y Parch Aled Huw Thomas.
Diolch ir Parch Cath Williams am ei ymweliadau cyson a ni yma, hefyd ei gwasanaeth ddydd yr angladd.
To parch corn in a microwave, put about a quarter cup of corn on a paper plate, cover with another paper plate and cook on high for two to three minutes, until most of the popping stops.
Nearby are Joseph Heidebrecht's two large paintings of female figures left to parch; circling each painting is cut-out text that relies on the position of the sun to make it legible as shadow.