Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight. Synonyms:adust, baked, parched, scorched."Land lying baked in the heat" , "Parched soil" , "The earth was scorched and bare" , "Sunbaked salt flats"
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Baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned.
... for spending a short night in a comfortable bed—with, or, if the man could not help it, without caresses—and then off again, depressed and irritable, off to the maddeningly overcrowded railroad station, back to the front, into the damp trench or the sunbaked block house. ... — Men in War • Andreas Latzko