BAKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baked mean? 

• BAKED (adjective)
  The adjective BAKED has 2 senses:

1. dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

2. (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven)

  Familiarity information: BAKED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

Synonyms:

adust; baked; parched; scorched; sunbaked

Context example:

sunbaked salt flats

Similar:

dry (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven)

Context example:

baked goods

Similar:

cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)

 Context examples 

His mother gave him a cake made with water and baked in the cinders, and with it a bottle of sour beer.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Trans fatty acids, or trans fats, are commonly found in fried foods, chips, crackers and baked goods.

(Trans Fat Bans Lessen Health Risks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When you see Hordle once more, there will be no penny ale and fat bacon, but Gascon wines and baked meats every day of the seven.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not that I had any doubt before—I have so often heard Mr. Woodhouse recommend a baked apple.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Any of various baked foods made of dough or batter.

(Pastry, NCI Thesaurus)

The socialist philosophy that riots half-baked in your veins has passed me by.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He's been starved, and he shan't be baked now he's dead.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At five in the morning Maud brought me hot coffee and biscuits she had baked, and at seven a substantial and piping hot breakfast put new lift into me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Diana, as she passed in and out, in the course of preparing tea, brought me a little cake, baked on the top of the oven.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)