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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Sanforize, air-dry, anhydrate, attenuate, bake, be in heat, blaze, blister, bloom, blot, boil, brand, broil, brush, burn, burn in, burn off, cast, cauterize, char, choke, coal, combust, consume, cook, crack, cupel, cure, dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccate, drain, dry, dry up, emacerate, emaciate, evaporate, exsiccate, fire, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flicker, flush, found, fry, gasp, glow, incandesce, insolate, kiln, macerate, mummify, oxidate, oxidize, pant, preshrink, pyrolyze, radiate heat, roast, rub, scald, scorch, sear, seethe, shimmer with heat, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up, simmer, singe, smoke, smolder, smother, soak up, solder, spark, sponge, steam, stew, stifle, suffocate, sun, sun-dry, swab, sweat, swelter, swinge, thin, toast, torrefy, towel, vesicate, vulcanize, waste, waste away, weazen, weld, wipe, wither, wizen
Dictionary Results for parch:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
parch
    v 1: cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun
         parched the earth" [syn: parch, sear]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Parch \Parch\, v. i.
   To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry.
   "Parch in Afric sun." --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Parch \Parch\ (p[aum]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parched; p. pr.
   & vb. n. Parching.] [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.
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            Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. --Lev.
                                                  xxiii. 14.
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   2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth
      is parched from fever.
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            The ground below is parched.          --Dryden.
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