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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of parch.

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Examples

  • KANSAS CITY—Kansas is on track to harvest a below-average wheat crop as a severe drought parches the country's top producer of bread wheat.

    Drought Caps Kansas Wheat Tom Polansek 2011

  • The camp has registered over 1,000 newcomers a day as a drought parches the region this summer.

    Photos of the Day: Aug. 5 2011

  • Trucoteca cubre todas tus necesidades para mantenerte actualizado con los últimos parches, las noticias recientes y por supuesto fotos, demos y videos de los juegos que vendrán.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • This medicine shop run as a profit organization complying with all legal bindings and helping house maids by providing medicine in parches price or free in some cases.

    Help MITA 2009

  • This medicine shop run as a profit organization complying with all legal bindings and helping house maids by providing medicine in parches price or free in some cases.

    Help MITA 2009

  • As it develops it gets even drier, echoing the shimmering heat of the midday sun as it mercilessly parches everything under its power.

    Midnight at the Oasis: Tauer Perfumes L’Air du Desert Marocain Marina Geigert 2009

  • Even sleeping through a sprinkling provided by the hose wielder giving the newly opening New England Asters a long drink before the heat of the day parches their thirst.

    Bee Speed « Fairegarden 2009

  • As it develops it gets even drier, echoing the shimmering heat of the midday sun as it mercilessly parches everything under its power.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Marina Geigert 2009

  • Of yestertempest's creases; 'in pool and rut peel parches

    John Lundberg: Turning Poetry Into Music 2008

  • Worsening monsoons tear away topsoil; drought parches land for years on end.

    Mort Rosenblum: India at 60, Monsoons, Weddings and Yet More Misery 2008

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