Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being parched or dried up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being parched.
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- noun The state or quality of being
parched .
Etymologies
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parched + -ness
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Examples
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The water felt thoroughly dry, like she had gulped down liquid parchedness.
GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL GREGORY SPENCER 2007
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And now I did certainly remark a quality in his voice that was new to my ear; it was not, as he had said, a labour or thickness of utterance, but a dryness and parchedness of old age, with many breaks from high to low notes, and a lean noise of dribbling threading every word.
The Frozen Pirate 1877
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