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Parching vs Patching - What's the difference?

parching | patching |

As verbs the difference between parching and patching

is that parching is while patching is .

As an adjective parching

is capable of causing something to parch.

As a noun patching is

the act of one who patches.

parching

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of causing something to parch.
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    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
  • (label) Extreme.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.

    Verb

    (head)

    • patching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who patches.
  • * 1766 , Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
    • all this is not neatness, but frippery. These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings , will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.

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