GRE vocabulary
parch
to make something extremely dry, especially by intense heat
In a sentence
Parch in a sentence
Here is an example sentence showing parch in a sentence.
Weeks without rain had parched the once-green fields to brown.
Synonyms
Antonyms
moistendrenchsoak
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Common questions
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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