parchingly

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adverb

So as to parch or dry out.

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Meanings

adverbparchingly (comparative more parchingly, superlative most parchingly)

comparative more parchingly · superlative most parchingly

  1. So as to parch or dry out.

    Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Origin

From parching + -ly.

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APA

parchingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parchingly

MLA

“parchingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parchingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “parchingly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parchingly.

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