baked has definitions from the field of food
1
[ adjective ] (of bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven)

Examples

"baked goods"

Related terms

cooked

2
[ adjective ] dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

Examples

"a vast desert all adust" "land lying baked in the heat" "parched soil" "the earth was scorched and bare" "sunbaked salt flats"

Used in print

(T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)

And the valley stretched endlessly out ahead , scorched and baked and writhing in its heat , until it vanished into the throbbing wall of fiery orange brown haze .

Related terms

dry

3
[ adjective ] hardened by subjecting to intense heat

Synonyms

burnt burned

Examples

"baked bricks" "burned bricks"

Related terms

tempered

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