parched

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑɹt͡ʃt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɑːtʃt/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃt

Adjective

parched (comparative more parched, superlative most parched)

1. Dry.
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 8, in Frankenstein‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 April 2012:

     I passed a night of unmingled wretchedness. In the morning I went to the court; my lips and throat were parched. I dared not ask the fatal question, but I was known, and the officer guessed the cause of my visit.

   • 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian‎^[2]:

     Played acoustically, glacially paced and sung in Kristofferson’s parched, age-weathered voice, even his more lighthearted songs – Jesus Was a Capricorn, Best Of All Possible Worlds – were leant an eerie gravitas, while Me and Bobby McGee and Sunday Morning Coming Down sounded heartbreakingly careworn and poignant.

2. Very thirsty.

Derived terms

• parched up

Translations

dry

• Catalan: ressec
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燥 (zh) (zào)

• Dutch: droog (nl)
• Finnish: kuiva (fi)
• French: sec (fr), desséché (fr)
• German: ausgedörrt, ausgetrocknet (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: καρφαλέος (karphaléos), ἀζαλέος (azaléos)

• Irish: spalptha
• Italian: seccato (it), prosciugato (it)
• Latin: āridus (la)
• Maori: raki (mi), tūpākākā
• Marathi: कोरडा (mr) m (korḍā)
• Portuguese: ressequido (pt)
• Russian: пересо́хший (ru) (peresóxšij), опалённый (ru) (opaljónnyj), вы́жженный (ru) (výžžennyj)
• Spanish: reseco (es)
• Swedish: uttorkad (sv)
• Tocharian B: aslyamaṣṣe

thirsty

• Catalan: assedegat (ca)
• Dutch: dorstig (nl)
• Finnish: janoinen (fi)
• French: assoiffé (fr)
• Italian: assetato (it)
• Portuguese: sedento (pt)
• Russian: пересо́хший (ru) (peresóxšij) (throat, not person), жа́ждущий (ru) (žážduščij)
• Spanish: sediento (es)

Verb

parched

1. simple past and past participle of parch