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[ 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

(Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)

The town was about what Wilson expected : one main_street with its rows of false-fronted buildings , a water_tower , a_few warehouses , a single hotel ; all dusty and sunbaked .

Related terms

dry

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[ adjective ] baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned

Examples

"sunbaked adobe bricks"

Related terms

tempered

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