Starve vs Parch - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between starve and parch

is that starve is to deprive of nourishment while parch is to become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.

is that starve is (obsolete) to die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away while parch is to burn the surface of, to scorch.

the condition of being parched.

(wikipedia starve)

(obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i.4:

noble Britomart / Released her, that else was like to sterue , / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.

To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

To be very hungry.

Hey, ma, I'm starving !

To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.

To deprive of nourishment.

They starved the child until it withered away.

(transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.

I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

* starvation * starveling * starving

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.

(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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