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SUNBAKED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sunbaked mean?
• SUNBAKED (adjective)
The adjective SUNBAKED has 2 senses:
1. dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
2. baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned
Familiarity information: SUNBAKED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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:
Baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned
Context example:
sunbaked adobe bricks
Similar:
hardened; tempered; toughened; treated (made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment)
Context examples
“Surely,” answered Holmes, “it is not hard to say that a man with that bearing, expression of authority, and sunbaked skin, is a soldier, is more than a private, and is not long from India.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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