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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 sunlightplay

2. baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burnedplay

  Familiarity information: SUNBAKED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SUNBAKED (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:

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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