LekhoriLekhoriTo burn the surface of, to scorch.
The sun today could parch cement.
To roast, as dry grain.
Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.
To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
The patient’s mouth is parched from fever.
The condition of being parched.
Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].
From Middle English parchen, paarchen (“to parch; dry; roast”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of Middle English perchen (“to roast”).
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