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Parched vs Quenched - What's the difference?

parched | quenched |

As verbs the difference between parched and quenched

is that parched is past tense of parch while quenched is past tense of quench.

As an adjective parched

is dry.

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)

    • quenched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (quench)
    • I quenched my thirst with soup.

    quench

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
    • The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.
  • * 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.
  • To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light.)
    • Then the MacManus went down. The sudden quench of the white light was how I knew it. -- Saul Bellow
  • To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
    • The swordsmith quenched the sword in an oil bath so that it wouldn't shatter.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.