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unparched en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ʌnˈpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃt/

Etymology

From un- + parched. In the obsolete sense, un- functions as an intensifier.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, obsolete) Dried up; withered by heat.
   • My tongue […] unparch'd. a. 1649, Richard Crashaw, Psalm CXXXVII:
2. (not-comparable) Not parched.
   • To one fresh from the baked Australian plains, there is likeness between any green and humid land and the last unparched country that he may have seen. 1868, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain, volume 2, page 93:
   • unparched cornmeal