| 单词 |
parched |
| 释义 |
parched, ppl. a.|pɑːtʃt, ˈpɑːtʃɪd|
[f. parch v. + -ed1.]
1. Dried by exposure to great heat; roasted: said esp. of the effect of fire upon farinaceous substances.
c1440Promp. Parv. 382/2 Parchyd, as pesys, or benys. 1539Bible (Great) 1 Sam. xxv. 18 Fyue measures of parched corne. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 93 The perched or burstled peasen..called in Northumberland carlines. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 213 The Hens in eating taste like parched Pigs. 1682Lond. Gaz. No. 1750/4 Fine Coffee-Powder, from 2s. 6d. to 3s. per Pound, or the Parched Berries at the same rate. 1841Emerson Lect., Man Reformer Wks. (Bohn) II. 243 Parched corn eaten to-day that I may have roast fowl to my dinner on Sunday, is a baseness.
2. Deprived of natural moisture, by the sun's heat, fever, etc.; dried up, ‘scorched’: see parch v. 2.
1552Huloet, Parched with heate, or the sunne, retorridus. 1560Bible (Genev.) Jer. xvii. 6 He..shal inhabit the partched places in the wildernes. 1595Shakes. John v. vii. 40 To make his bleake windes kisse my parched lips, And comfort me with cold. 1709Steele Tatler No. 92 ⁋2 A parched Soil and a burning Climate. 1853C. Brontë Villette xxii, As good to me as the well is to the parched wayfarer.
Hence parchedly |ˈpɑːtʃɪdlɪ|, adv.; ˈparchedness.
1598Florio, Aridamente, barrenlie, dryly, parchedly. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal., Def. Mor. Cab. i. 206 A waste silent Solitude, and one uniform parchednesse and vacuity. 1887Clark Russell Frozen Pirate II. iv. 95 A dryness and parchedness of old age. |
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