Something parched is excessively dry and hot, in extreme need of water, like a desert, a neglected plant, or your throat after a five kilometer run.
Adjective S.
toasted or roasted slightly; "parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet"
Adjective S.
dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats"
imp. & p. p.
of Parch
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Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.
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