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Parched vs Errand - What's the difference?

parched | errand |

As verbs the difference between parched and errand

is that parched is (parch) while errand is to send someone on an errand.

As an adjective parched

is dry.

As a noun errand is

a trip to accomplish a small mission or to do some business (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc).

parched

English

Adjective

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  • Dry.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=8 citation , passage=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.}}
  • Thirsty.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (parch)

    • errand

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trip to accomplish a small mission or to do some business (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
  • :
  • The purpose of such trip.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand' not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their ' errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
  • An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.

    • Derived terms

    * fool's errand * lost errand

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To send someone on an errand.
    • All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
  • To go on an errand.
    • She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.

    Anagrams

    * *