parched
Needing water desperately
Parched means extremely dry, typically from heat or lack of water.
Soil becomes parched during drought; lips become parched in winter.
The word commonly describes intense thirst: I'm parched—is there anything to drink?
Parched also describes food dried by roasting: parched corn, parched peanuts.
Unable to produce
- dustyCoated with fine particles
- bakedCooked by dry heat
- sunbakedDried by solar heat
- crackedHaving surface fractures
bone-dry · waterless · wasteland · hardpan · lifeless · inhospitable · bleak · rainless
Absence of moisture
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- quenchSatisfy or extinguish
- hydrateInfuse with water
- gulpingSwallowing hastily, noisily
swallow · sip · gasping · desperate · ravenous · dehydrated · waterless · moistureless
Damaged by heat
- charredBurned until black
- blisteredFormed fluid-filled welts
- singedSuperficially burned
- toastedBrowned by heat
blackened · seared · crisped · browned · roasted · blazing · baking · wilted
Insufficient supply of water
- dry spellProlonged absence of rain
- rainlessLacking precipitation
- famineSevere food shortage
- crop failureWhen fields yield nothing
dust bowl · reservoir · rationing · irrigation · desertification · heatwave · failed harvest · cracked earth
barren
Unable to produce
cracked · bone-dry · waterless · wasteland · hardpan · lifeless · inhospitable · bleak · rainless · sere
dryness
Absence of moisture
gulping · swallow · sip · gasping · desperate · ravenous · dehydrated · waterless · moistureless · cottonmouth
burnt
Damaged by heat
toasted · blackened · seared · crisped · browned · roasted · blazing · baking · wilted · withered
water shortage
Insufficient supply of water
crop failure · dust bowl · reservoir · rationing · irrigation · desertification · heatwave · failed harvest · cracked earth · water restrictions
- hunger & thirstappetite, thirst, starvation, dehydration, cravings
- hydration statesdehydrated, hydrated, overhydrated, thirsty, quenched
- desertsand, sand dunes, sand dune, dune, dunes
- hairhair, haircut, hairstyle, hair loss, coily
- drynessarid, aridity, dry, dehydrated, bone dry
- heatheat transfer, thermal energy, heatwave, radiation, convection
parchedsoaking
Completely saturated with liquid
drenched · saturated · wet · sodden · waterlogged
- parchment paperNonstick cooking surface liner
- parched earthSeverely dried-out ground
- baking parchmentNonstick oven sheet
- parchment scrollRolled writing surface, historical
- parched landExtremely dry territory
- parched soilExtremely dry earth