parched

1. 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”

   Synonymsadustbakedscorchedsunbaked

   Similardry
2. 2.

   toasted or roasted slightly

   “parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet”

   Similarcooked

Other forms of parched

comparative

parchedder·

superlative

parcheddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about parched

What does parched mean?

parched means "dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in parched?

parched has 1 syllable: parched. In IPA it is /ˈpɑɹtʃt/.

What is another word for parched?

Close synonyms include adust, baked, scorched, sunbaked. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parched a common word?

parched is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.