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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 23:14:",
"text": "Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.",
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"text": "The patient’s mouth is parched from fever.",
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"ref": "1702, Cotton Mather, “[Book VI (Thaumaturgus: […]).] Chapter I. Christus Super Aquas: Relating Wonderful Sea Deliverances.”, in Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. […], London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, section VI (Sore Calamities at Sea Survived), page 5, column 2:",
"text": "They vvould go over board vvith a Rope faſtned about them, that by drenching themſelves a vvhile in the Sea, they might eaſe the internal Heat vvhich parched them; and vvhen they ſtood any of them to ſteer the Veſſel, they vvould have their Feet in a Pail of Sea VVater to refrigerate 'em.",
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"ref": "1857, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, A History of All Nations, page 101:",
"text": "The last day's march was very painful, for the north wind, blowing full in their faces, parched and benumbed the men.",
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"text": "We're parched, hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?",
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"ref": "1828, George Croly, Salathiel: A Story of the Past, the Present, and the Future, page 65:",
"text": "In my haste I stumbled , and fell over one of the wounded; he groaned, and prayed me for a cup of water to cool the thirst that parched him.",
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"ref": "1870 February 1, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, “The Eagle and the Hen”, in The Sword and the Trowel, page 52:",
"text": "Serpents bit them, thirst parched them, Amalekites assailed them.",
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"ref": "1882, William Dean Howells, A Woman's Reason, page 245:",
"text": "They had no water on the wreck, and a consuming thirst parched them.",
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"ref": "1919, David Anderson, The Blue Moon: A Tale of the Flatwoods, page 245:",
"text": "Whether it was the cup he drank from, or the thirst that parched him, he took no thought, but it was the sweetest drink that ever passed his lips.",
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{
"ref": "1996, Xosé Luis Méndez Ferrín, Them and Other Stories, page 159:",
"text": "That there had been certain couplings was only because in opening up tunnels of betrayal and shadows in forbidden bodies and imaginations, they were quenching the thirst for Artur that parched them all, that they all professed in limitless ardour.",
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{
"ref": "2011, James Ellroy, The Cold Six Thousand, page 399:",
"text": "Pete sipped RC. Bennies parched him bad.",
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"To make very thirsty."
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"word": "assedegar"
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"word": "assoiffer"
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"sense": "to make thirsty",
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"alt": "of the throat, e.g. \"го́рло пересо́хло\"",
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"alt": "thirst is the subject, the thirsty person is the object, e.g. \"меня́ иссуши́ла жа́жда\"",
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"To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in parched peas, a type of mushy peas)."
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"text": "The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.",
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"To become superficially burnt; to become sunburned."
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"id": "en-parch-en-verb-gqY9yScS",
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"(intransitive) To become superficially burnt; to become sunburned."
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"_dis1": "10 2 3 29 3 52",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izsǎhvam",
"sense": "to become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry",
"word": "изсъхвам"
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"_dis1": "10 2 3 29 3 52",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"word": "vyschnout"
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"_dis1": "10 2 3 29 3 52",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"word": "vyprahnout"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry",
"word": "korventua"
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry",
"word": "abrasar"
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"sense": "to become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry",
"word": "rösten"
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"roman": "xiraínomai",
"sense": "to become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry",
"word": "ξηραίνομαι"
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"roman": "peresyxátʹ",
"sense": "to become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry",
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"imperfective"
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"word": "пересыха́ть"
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"roman": "peresóxnutʹ",
"sense": "to become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry",
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"perfective"
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