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parchingly

parchingly adverb: so as to parch or dry out.

Adverb

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

Forms of parchingly

comparativemore parchingly
superlativemost parchingly

Origin of parchingly

From parching + -ly.

Questions about parchingly

What does parchingly mean?
Parchingly means so as to parch or dry out.
What part of speech is parchingly?
Parchingly is an adverb.

Words near parchingly in the dictionary

  1. parcherry
  2. parchers
  3. parches
  4. parchesi
  5. parching
  6. parchingly
  7. parchings
  8. parchisi
  9. Parchman
  10. Parchmans
  11. parchment

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