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sunbaked

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sun·baked  (snbkt)
adj.
Baked, dried, or hardened by exposure to sunlight: sunbaked bricks; the sunbaked salt flats.

sunbaked [ˈsʌnˌbeɪkt]
adj
1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) (esp of roads, etc.) dried or cracked by the sun's heat
2. baked hard by the heat of the sun sunbaked bricks
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Adj.1.sunbaked - dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlightsunbaked - dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats"
dry - free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry"
2.sunbaked - baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned; "sunbaked adobe bricks"
tempered, toughened, hardened, treated - made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
Translations
sunbaked [ˈsʌnbeɪkt] ADJendurecido al sol


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Here the ground was sunbaked and wide open in a multitude of cracks.
"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.
 
 
 
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