sunbaked
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4.8
- adjective
- /ˈsʌnˌbeɪkt/
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secado al sol
- The sunbaked ground cracked under my feet as we walked through the desert.
- smell of sunbaked
- sunbaked hair
Examples
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My stomach feels like the treeless, dusty, sunbaked streets of the Boondocks.
Fiction book (1995) -
It seems to me you have a sunbaked ocean bed and lots of rotting fish.
Fiction book (2000) -
As it had been prophesied, I came down from the hills and walked over the sunbaked plain.
Blog text (32) -
The stone is incandescent in the white light, as is the terra rossa beneath it: barbed, sunbaked, hard-visaged stone.
Fiction book (1993) -
The California that Tom Wolfe describes, though, is real, right down to the dirt clods in the unpaved, chain-link-fenced parking lots of windswept, sunbaked, industrial Contra Costa County.
Blog text (19) -
Lt. Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman) has just survived a plane crash and sets out across the sunbaked, unforgiving landscape of the Ivory Coast in the hopes of reaching safety and reuniting with his family back home.
Blog text (27) -
They were having a drought in the area around the squalid little mining town we landed in, and the smell of sunbaked earth hung in the air, laced with the continual dry scraping of the cicadas in the trees.
Fiction book (1990) -
Photo (color): The red sandstone pueblos at Wupatki National Monument were built by the Sinagua after they moved off Sunset Crater's cool slopes and onto the sunbaked desert floor.
Academic text (2004) -
The sunbaked clay pots decorated the courtyard, showcasing vibrant colors from the scorching sun.
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After hours in the sunbaked garden, they were ready to retreat indoors for some shade.
Synonyms
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4.7
Having very little water because of heat
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3.4
Made by leaving food or things in the sun so they last longer
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4.6
Burned and dried by strong heat such as fire or hot sun
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3.6
Left in the sun until it loses its water
Dried by strong sun or heat until hard and cracked
Dried and darkened by strong sun
Antonyms
How Dry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sunbaked combines sun and baked, so imagine 'baked bread' left in the hot sun until it becomes dry and hard. So, sunbaked describes something 'dried out or hardened by strong sunlight'.