parch in the PONS Dictionary

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In our heartland, farms have been parched by the worst drought in generations, and drenched by the wettest spring in our history.
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They are still involved in their traditional occupation of grain parching.
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Yet the sun remains unmoving in the sky, parching and burning all the ground beneath.
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Is the idea of a dry monsoon beginning to parch your appetite for investing?
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The sweet smell of rice parching wafts through the dusty air.
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The windfall gains of this ancient technology have now all but evaporated, as the severe sun has parched the metro.
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Used to parching interior summers, since the season began we've been measuring sunlight by the number of minutes we see, a week.
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C -- the smallest increase we can prudently expect to follow inaction -- would parch continents, turning farmland into desert.
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Devastation has come out of a clear blue cloudless sky, the lack of rain parching good ground into a cracked, pale grave for the crops.
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When the air returns to sea level on the other side of the mountains, it recompresses, warms and dries, parching the deserts.
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