parched 的定义
- extremely or completely dried, as by heat, sun, or wind: Dry shrubs cover parts of this parched valley in the South Hebron Hills.
- very thirsty: After each shift in the ship’s engine room, I was dead tired and totally parched, needing large amounts of water.
- slightly toasted or roasted: The village folk customarily have one meal a day of parched grains, so there is always a crowd around the old widow’s oven.
parched 近义词
dry
更多parched例句
- Already parched vegetation — by many measures at peak-season dryness and breaking records for June — is going to be even more flammable both during and after this heat wave.
- As the snow melted, runoff was soaked up by parched soils, which are still dry from last year’s monsoon-free summer and fire-filled fall.
- Hot weather can lead to parched soil and more dry natural material that can fuel flames.
- A sophomore at Clovis North High School in Fresno, he wanted to help farmers save their plants from getting dangerously parched.
- If you do go off-trail, travel only on rock and soft sand surfaces to avoid damaging the plentiful cryptobiotic soil, a living crust that helps tiny desert plants stay rooted and retains moisture in the parched ground.
- Shrubs and small trees dot a parched landscape along the road from Turbat to the border.
- Environmentalists today generally prefer to limit roads and block new water projects, even in parched California.
- This is epic, and historic, and man am I parched/hungry all of a sudden.
- When it gets parched in Los Angeles the weather service issues a “red-flag” warning to indicate that the risk of fire is high.
- He leant against the wall of his refuge, notwithstanding this boast, and licked the ice to moisten his parched lips.
- The dust in the curtains, if you will pardon me for hinting such a thing, has parched my throat to a crisp.
- His arms were growing heavy with fatigue, his mouth was parched, and great beads of perspiration stood upon his brow.
- He laid himself down again, and she reached him the gruel, which proved a great relief to his parched and fevered throat.
- The coffee was made of either parched rye or corn-meal, or of sweet potatoes cut in small cubes and roasted.