01 a. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.
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1.
Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.
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2.
Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.
Phrases & compounds
Torrid zone —
that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.