OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 31343

parched

/pɑɹt͡ʃt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
reseco
Dry.
In the morning I went to the court; my lips and throat were parched. I dared not ask the fatal question, but I was known, and the officer guessed the cause of my visit.
Played acoustically, glacially paced and sung in Kristofferson’s parched, age-weathered voice, even his more lighthearted songs – Jesus Was a Capricorn, Best Of All Possible Worlds…
hidrópico • sediente (disused) • sediento • sitibundo
Very thirsty.
I'm quite parched.