[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

parch \parch\ paumrch, v. t. imp.  p. p. parched; p. pr.
    vb. n. parching. oe. perchen to pierce, hence used of a
   piercing heat or cold, of. perchier, another form of percier,
   f. percer. see pierce.
   1. to burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire,
      as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.
      1913 webster

            ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. --lev.
                                                  xxiii. 14.
      1913 webster

   2. to dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth
      is parched from fever.
      1913 webster

            the ground below is parched.          --dryden.
      1913 webster
see also:
parched parching pierce 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

parched
     adj 1: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast
            desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat";
            "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare";
            "sunbaked salt flats" syn: adust, baked, scorched,
             sunbaked
     2: toasted or roasted slightly; "parched corn was a staple of
        the indian diet"
see also:
adust baked scorched sunbaked 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

53 moby thesaurus words for "parched":
   sanforized, adust, ashen, ashy, athirst, attenuated, baked,
   blistered, burned, burnt, burnt-up, consumed, consumed by fire,
   corky, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dried-up, droughty, dry,
   emacerated, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated, gutted, incinerated,
   mummified, preshrunk, pyrographic, pyrolyzed, scorched, sear,
   seared, sere, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, singed,
   sun-dried, sunbaked, sunburned, thin, thirsting, thirsty, wasted,
   wasted away, weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizen, wizen-faced,
   wizened

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