parched
(adjective) toasted or roasted slightly; “parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet”
adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked
(adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; “a vast desert all adust”; “land lying baked in the heat”; “parched soil”; “the earth was scorched and bare”; “sunbaked salt flats”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
parched (comparative more parched, superlative most parched)
Dry.
Very thirsty.
parched
simple past tense and past participle of parch
Source: Wiktionary
Parch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parched; p. pr. & vb. n. Parching.] Etym: [OE. perchen to pierce, hence used of a piercing heat or cold, OF. perchier, another form of percier, F. percer. See Pierce.]
1. To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. Lev. xxiii. 14.
2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever. The ground below is parched. Dryden.
Parch, v. i.
Definition: To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry. "Parch in Afric sun." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 May 2025
(adverb) at some indefinite or unstated time; “let’s get together sometime”; “everything has to end sometime”; “It was to be printed sometime later”
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.