Marches vs Parches - What's the difference?
marches | parches |
As a proper noun marches is or marches can be . As a verb parches is .
marches Noun
(head)
the area along a border
Verb
(head)
(march)
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parches English
Verb
(head)
(parch)
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parch English
Verb
To burn the surface of, to scorch.
- The sun today could parch cement.
To roast, as dry grain.
* Bible, Leviticus xxiii. 14
- Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.
To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
- The patient's mouth is parched from fever.
(colloquial) To make thirsty.
- We're parched , hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?
(archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in , a type of mushy peas ).
To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.
- The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.
Noun
( parches)
The condition of being parched.
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 64:
- Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].
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