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"[syn: adust ]

toasted or roasted slightly; "parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet"

adjective

damp , moist , wet

adjective

arid , burned , cotton-mouth , dehydrated , dried out , dried up , dry as dust , scorched , shriveled , thirsty , waterless , withered , dry , sere , torrid