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parch

verbCommon GRE wordMore P words

to make something extremely dry, especially by intense heat

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Parch in a sentence

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Weeks without rain had parched the once-green fields to brown.

Synonyms
drydesiccateshrivelscorch
Antonyms
moistendrenchsoak
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Questions about “parch

Parch (verb) means to make something extremely dry, especially by intense heat
Here is parch used in an example sentence: "Weeks without rain had parched the once-green fields to brown."
Common synonyms for parch include dry, desiccate, shrivel, scorch.
Antonyms of parch include moisten, drench, soak.
Parch is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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