parched

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His throat was parched, and his tongue felt swollen.

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  • Department of Agriculture predicts that stream volumes across the American West will fall 20\% by midcentury, leaving population centers such as Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Southern California parched -- and crippling U.S. agricultural production. —  Fast Company
  • It's having the courage to wait where it's parched, and to let that be enough. —  [ hold :: this space ]
  • So when we arrived back in town we were parched, and really enjoyed the Chinese food which was a bargain 10sol each! —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • I apologize for my parched-to-the-brink-of-death dryness in the wit.
  • [Quote:] And while Mars today appears lifeless and parched, they are a reminder of how its surface was shaped by fast flowing streams, rivers and oceans. —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
 

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parched:   parch
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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