Parch vs Unparched - What's the difference?
parch | unparched |
To burn the surface of, to scorch.
To roast, as dry grain.
* Bible, Leviticus xxiii. 14
To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
(colloquial) To make thirsty.
(archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in , a type of mushy peas ).
To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.
The condition of being parched.
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 64:
(obsolete) Dried up; withered by heat.
Not parched.
* 1868 , Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain (volume 2, page 93)
As a verb parch
is to burn the surface of, to scorch.As a noun parch
is the condition of being parched.As an adjective unparched is
dried up; withered by heat.parch
English
Verb
- The sun today could parch cement.
- Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.
- The patient's mouth is parched from fever.
- We're parched , hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?
- The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.
Noun
(parches)- Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].
unparched
English
Adjective
(-)- My tongue unparched. — Richard Crashaw.
- unparched cornmeal
- To one fresh from the baked Australian plains, there is likeness between any green and humid land and the last unparched country that he may have seen.