parch

The word “parch” has 1 syllable: parch

It's pronounced as /pɑːrtʃ/


What is synonym and antonym for parch?

In the thesaurus, “parch” has 20 synonyms and 28 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for parch along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for parch

  • air-dry
  • bake
  • blister
  • brown
  • dehumidify
  • dehydrate
  • desiccate
  • drain
  • dry
  • dry up
  • evaporate
  • exsiccate
  • make thirsty
  • mummify
  • scorch
  • sear
  • shrivel
  • stale
  • wither
  • wizen

Antonyms for parch

  • bathe
  • damp
  • dampen
  • deluge
  • dip
  • douse
  • dowse
  • drench
  • drown
  • dunk
  • flood
  • grow
  • humidify
  • hydrate
  • inundate
  • moisten
  • overflow
  • rehydrate
  • saturate
  • soak
  • sop
  • souse
  • submerge
  • swamp
  • wash
  • water
  • waterlog
  • wet

Meanings of parch

  • noun
    1. The condition of being parched.
  • verb
    1. To burn the surface of, to scorch.
    2. To roast, as dry grain.
    3. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
    4. To make thirsty.
    5. To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in parched peas, a type of mushy peas).
    6. To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.

Example Sentences

  • The scorching sun will parch the soil if it doesn't rain soon.
  • Walking for hours in the desert began to parch his throat.
  • The intense heat can parch crops, leading to poor harvests.
  • She drank a glass of cold water to parch her dry mouth.
  • The fire's heat seemed to parch everything around it.

On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to parch, such as: air-dry, bake, bathe, blister, brown, damp, dampen.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

baked

  • air-dry
  • arid
  • bone-dry
  • charred
  • cremated
  • dehydrated
  • desert
  • desertic
  • desertlike
  • dried
  • droughty
  • drunk
  • dry
  • enflamed
  • fired
  • fried
  • heated
  • hyperarid
  • ignited
  • incinerated
  • inflamed
  • intoxicated
  • kindled
  • lighted
  • lit
  • looped
  • melted
  • parched
  • rainless
  • scalded
  • scathed
  • scorched
  • sear
  • seared
  • sere
  • simmered
  • singed
  • stewed
  • stoned
  • sunbaked
  • thirsty
  • ultradry
  • warmed
  • wasted
  • waterless
  • xerothermic

dead

  • abeyant
  • absolute
  • absolutely
  • abundantly
  • all
  • all in
  • all of
  • all over
  • all the way
  • all-out
  • altogether
  • anesthetized
  • antiquated
  • apathetic
  • arid
  • arrant
  • arrested
  • as the crow flies
  • asleep
  • at length
  • at rest
  • authentic
  • aweary
  • baked
  • baleful
  • bankrupted
  • barren
  • basically
  • beat
  • beaten
  • benumbed
  • bereft of life
  • bitten the dust
  • bland
  • blank
  • bleak
  • bleary
  • bloodless
  • blooming
  • blunted
  • bodacious
  • boney
  • bony
  • boring
  • bought the farm
  • breathless
  • broken
  • broken-down
  • buried
  • burned-out
  • burnt-out
  • bushed
  • by and large
  • bygone
  • bypast
  • cadaverous
  • callous
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • categorically
  • checked out
  • chiefly
  • chilled
  • classic
  • clean
  • cocainized
  • cold
  • collapsed
  • comatose
  • complete
  • completely
  • confirmed
  • constant
  • consumed
  • consummate
  • copiously
  • crashing
  • cut off
  • damn
  • damned
  • dated
  • deadened
  • deadly
  • deadness
  • death
  • deathly
  • debilitated
  • deceased
  • definite
  • defunct
  • dehydrated
  • demised
  • departed
  • depleted
  • desert
  • desolate
  • dilute
  • diminished
  • direct
  • directly
  • done
  • done for
  • doomed
  • dormant
  • down the line
  • down to the ground
  • downright
  • drained
  • dreadful
  • dried-up
  • droughty
  • drowsy
  • drugged
  • dry
  • due
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dying
  • endangered
  • endless
  • enervate
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • enough
  • entire
  • entirely
  • erased
  • eternal
  • even
  • exactly
  • exhausted
  • expended
  • expired
  • extinct
  • extraordinary
  • extreme
  • faded
  • fading
  • fair
  • fallen
  • fallow
  • fast
  • fatal
  • fateful
  • fatigued
  • fell
  • finished
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • flavorless
  • for fair
  • free
  • frightful
  • frigid
  • full
  • fully
  • generally
  • generously
  • genuine
  • ghostlike
  • ghostly
  • gone
  • gone to meet maker
  • gone to reward
  • grave
  • greatly
  • habitual
  • hands down
  • hardscrabble
  • heartily
  • heavy
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • huge
  • idle
  • imperiled
  • imperilled
  • impoverished
  • in whole
  • inactive
  • inanimate
  • inert
  • infertile
  • inhospitable
  • inoperable
  • inoperative
  • insensate
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insipid
  • interrupted
  • inveterate
  • jaded
  • kaput
  • kaputt
  • killer
  • knackered
  • lapsed
  • largely
  • late
  • latent
  • lessened
  • lethal
  • lethargic
  • lifeless
  • lifelessness
  • limp
  • liquidated
  • loggy
  • logy
  • lost
  • low
  • macabre
  • main
  • mainly
  • missing
  • more or less
  • moribund
  • mortal
  • mortality
  • mortuary
  • mostly
  • murderous
  • nipped
  • no more
  • nonexistent
  • nonextant
  • nonfunctional
  • nonfunctioning
  • nonliving
  • not existing
  • nothingness
  • numb
  • numbed
  • obsolete
  • obtunded
  • off
  • offed
  • on the shelf
  • out
  • out of commission
  • out-and-out
  • outright
  • overall
  • overfatigued
  • overtaxed
  • overthrown
  • overworked
  • parched
  • passed away
  • perfect
  • perfectly
  • perished
  • perpetual
  • pestilent
  • phantom
  • plain
  • played out
  • plumb
  • plump
  • pooped
  • poor
  • predominantly
  • predominately
  • primarily
  • principally
  • profound
  • prostrate
  • pure
  • pushing up daisies
  • quiescent
  • quite
  • rainless
  • rank
  • real
  • reduced
  • regular
  • reposing
  • resting in peace
  • right
  • ruined
  • run-down
  • sapped
  • savorless
  • sear
  • senseless
  • sere
  • sheer
  • simple
  • sleep
  • sleepy
  • slow
  • sluggish
  • soundly
  • spectral
  • spent
  • spiritless
  • stark
  • stiff
  • still
  • stillborn
  • stone
  • stone-cold
  • straight
  • straight-out
  • straightly
  • straightway
  • stupefied
  • substantially
  • sunbaked
  • sunk
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • surpassing
  • suspended
  • tapped out
  • tasteless
  • terminated
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thin
  • thirsty
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • thoroughly
  • through and through
  • tired
  • to bits
  • to pieces
  • to the hilt
  • to the max
  • torpid
  • total
  • totally
  • unadulterated
  • unalive
  • unalloyed
  • unanimated
  • unconditional
  • unconscious
  • uncultivable
  • undeviatingly
  • undying
  • unfeeling
  • unfertile
  • unflavored
  • uninteresting
  • unmitigated
  • unoccupied
  • unproductive
  • unqualified
  • unqualifiedly
  • unremitting
  • unresponsive
  • unrestricted
  • unsavory
  • untillable
  • unusable
  • unused
  • unworkable
  • used up
  • useless
  • utter
  • utterly
  • vacant
  • vanished
  • vapid
  • veritable
  • very
  • washed-out
  • waste
  • waterless
  • watery
  • weak
  • weakened
  • wearied
  • weary
  • well
  • wholly
  • wide
  • wiped out
  • wooden
  • worn
  • worn to a frazzle
  • worn-out

igneous

  • ablaze
  • abyssal
  • afire
  • aflame
  • agitable
  • alight
  • ardent
  • baking
  • blazing
  • blistering
  • boiling
  • broiling
  • burning
  • calescent
  • canicular
  • choleric
  • cimmerian
  • close
  • combustible
  • conflagrant
  • decalescent
  • enflamed
  • enthusiastic
  • excitable
  • febrific
  • febrile
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fevered
  • feverish
  • feverous
  • fierce
  • fiery
  • flaming
  • flaring
  • flickering
  • flushed
  • fused
  • glowing
  • heated
  • hectic
  • hot
  • hot-blooded
  • hot-headed
  • hot-tempered
  • humid
  • ignited
  • impassioned
  • impetuous
  • impulsive
  • in flames
  • incandescent
  • infernal
  • inflamed
  • intense
  • irascible
  • irritable
  • like an oven
  • liquefied
  • madcap
  • molten
  • muggy
  • on fire
  • ovenlike
  • overheated
  • parching
  • peppery
  • perfervid
  • piping
  • piping hot
  • precipitate
  • recalescent
  • red
  • red-hot
  • reheated
  • roasting
  • scalding
  • scorching
  • searing
  • seething
  • sizzling
  • smelted
  • smoking
  • snug
  • spirited
  • steaming
  • steamy
  • stuffy
  • sultry
  • summerlike
  • summery
  • superheated
  • sweltering
  • sweltry
  • thermogenic
  • toasty
  • torrid
  • tropic
  • tropical
  • ultrahot
  • unrestrained
  • vehement
  • very warm
  • violent
  • warm
  • warmed
  • warmish
  • white
  • white-hot

lamina

  • bark
  • carapace
  • case
  • casing
  • chip
  • coating
  • crust
  • cutis
  • derma
  • dermis
  • epidermis
  • fell
  • film
  • flake
  • fur
  • hide
  • hull
  • husk
  • integument
  • jacket
  • lamella
  • leaf
  • membrane
  • outside
  • parchment
  • peel
  • pelt
  • plate
  • rind
  • scale
  • sheath
  • sheathing
  • sheet
  • shell
  • shuck
  • slice
  • sliver
  • slough
  • splint
  • splinter
  • surface
  • tegument
  • vellum

pad

  • McMansion
  • Murphy bed
  • RV
  • abode
  • accommodations
  • album
  • amble
  • ambulate
  • amplify
  • apartment
  • apartment house
  • augment
  • baffle
  • barracks
  • barricade
  • bassinet
  • bed
  • bedstead
  • billet
  • block
  • boardinghouse
  • booklet
  • bounce
  • buffer
  • bulk
  • bumper
  • bungalow
  • bunk
  • bunk bed
  • cabin
  • caricature
  • carry-cot
  • casita
  • castle
  • chalet
  • clump
  • cocoon
  • color
  • condo
  • condominium
  • coop
  • cordon
  • cot
  • cottage
  • couch
  • countryseat
  • cradle
  • creep
  • crib
  • cushion
  • cushioning
  • daybed
  • diggings
  • digs
  • domicile
  • dorm
  • dormitory
  • doss
  • double-wide
  • dress up
  • duplex
  • dwelling
  • embellish
  • embroider
  • emphasize
  • enhance
  • enlarge
  • estate
  • exaggerate
  • expand
  • falter
  • farmhouse
  • feather bed
  • fender
  • fill
  • fill out
  • fireside
  • flat
  • flesh out
  • flophouse
  • footslog
  • four-poster
  • fudge
  • futon
  • gimp
  • go barefoot
  • grange
  • gussy up
  • habitation
  • hacienda
  • hall
  • hammock
  • hangout
  • hay
  • hearth
  • hearthstone
  • hedge
  • hermitage
  • hideout
  • hike
  • hive
  • hobble
  • home
  • homestead
  • hooch
  • hootch
  • house
  • house trailer
  • houseboat
  • housing
  • hovel
  • hut
  • hutch
  • hyperbolize
  • increase
  • inflate
  • jotter
  • kip
  • lair
  • layout
  • lengthen
  • limp
  • line
  • lodgement
  • lodging
  • lodging house
  • lodgment
  • lumber
  • lurch
  • magnify
  • manor
  • manor house
  • manse
  • mansion
  • march
  • mattress
  • memorandum
  • mince
  • mobile home
  • mosey
  • motor home
  • muffler
  • nest
  • nip
  • notebook
  • notepad
  • overdo
  • overdraw
  • overemphasize
  • overplay
  • overstate
  • pace
  • pack
  • padding
  • palace
  • pallet
  • pamphlet
  • paper
  • parade
  • parchment
  • parsonage
  • patter
  • penthouse
  • perambulate
  • peregrinate
  • pitter-patter
  • place
  • play up
  • plod
  • pound
  • power walk
  • prance
  • promenade
  • protect
  • protract
  • pussyfoot
  • quarters
  • quire
  • rack
  • ramble
  • ranch
  • ranch house
  • ream
  • recreational vehicle
  • rectory
  • residence
  • residency
  • roof
  • rooming house
  • sack
  • safeguard
  • salon
  • saltbox
  • sashay
  • satirize
  • saunter
  • scrapbook
  • scratch
  • scratch pad
  • scuff
  • semi
  • setup
  • shack
  • shakedown
  • shamble
  • shanty
  • shape
  • shelter
  • shield
  • shuffle
  • sleigh bed
  • slips
  • sneak
  • sofa
  • sofa bed
  • spin
  • split level
  • stagger
  • stalk
  • steal
  • step
  • step out
  • stomp
  • stress
  • stretch
  • stride
  • stroll
  • strut
  • studio couch
  • stuff
  • stumble
  • stump
  • suite
  • swagger
  • tablet
  • tap
  • tenement
  • tenement house
  • tiptoe
  • toddle
  • town house
  • townhome
  • tract house
  • trailer
  • traipse
  • tramp
  • trample
  • tread
  • trek
  • trip
  • triplex
  • tromp
  • troop
  • trot
  • trudge
  • trundle bed
  • vicarage
  • villa
  • waddle
  • walk
  • walk-up
  • wander
  • water bed

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