parched

• “Growing populations are straining supplies in parched areas of the U.S.”

  The Wall Street Journal: High-Tech Cures for Water Shortages

• “In fact, the startling abundance of fruit in parched Kandahar was what had first led me to consider beauty products.”

  Scents & Sensibility

• “There have been a few suggestions for using other words - yep, Gryphon, and Time Lord over on the Voyager board, I like the word parched too...hmm.”

  More on Title Troubles

• “Catty, my liquidity may be best described as parched, or even dessicated.”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » I dips me lid to Lord Bob of Nowhere.

• “Accustomed on "hikes" to a thirst not surpassed by anything "east of Suez," I never before appreciated the significance of the word "parched" - the "tongue cleaving to the roof of the mouth.”

  A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country

• “Each time the word ice met her eye she recalled the parched lips that had moaned for it, the feverish hands that had clutched it so greedily when she brought it, and she thought if Sandford Berry could only see what she had done for some of the poor souls who "got on her nerves" he'd change his opinion about her efforts to help them being of no avail.”

  Mary Ware's Promised Land

• “You've cheated me!" said Bai with a kind of parched hoarseness, as though her throat had been rubbed raw.”

  Spirit Gate

• “Coffee giv 'out an none could be bought so they took okra seeds an' parched 'em good an 'brown an' ground 'em an 'made coffee out'n' em.”

  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2

• “We had various substitutes, such as parched rye, also okra seed.”

  Documenting the American South, or, the American Experience in 19-th Century America

• “Heb. haran, i.e., "parched;" or probably from the Accadian charana, meaning "a road.”

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

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