parch
Example Sentences
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Dry soils and a parched atmosphere drank up the runoff before it could flow into storage.
From Los Angeles Times
If she can prove that cheetahs are worth saving, she thinks, she can help the cheetahs who are living in “the parched grassland she can only imagine. The place that would’ve been her home, too.”
And when hot conditions leave mountain soils parched, melting snow can be absorbed into the ground before runoff reaches streams and rivers.
From Los Angeles Times
The 160-acre parcel, in the parched, south-central San Luis Valley of Colorado, had been decimated by drought and overdrawn water rights and was no longer viable for farming crops or livestock.
It was imported from Europe, suitable wood being scarce in the parched Egyptian landscape.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
