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Definition of Sunbaked
1. Adjective. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight. "Sunbaked salt flats"
2. Adjective. Baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned. "Sunbaked adobe bricks"
Definition of Sunbaked
1. Verb. (past of sunbake) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sunbaked
1. baked by the sun [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunbaked
Literary usage of Sunbaked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1907)
"The Republic of Wisteria—one moderate-sized city and a few hundred square miles
of sunbaked plains—had caught the infection from a neighboring state, arid, ..."
2. Planning Problems of Town, City, and Region: Papers and Discussions at the by American Civic Association (1922)
"So many playgrounds are situated in bare sunbaked school yards, ... The transition
from a sunbaked schoolyard to these beautiful Recreation Parks is a long ..."
3. Recent Excavations in the Roman Forum, 1898-1905 by E. Burton Brown (1905)
"sunbaked bricks were the first improvement upon these, and such walls were often
covered with stucco and protected with projecting roofs of fire- baked ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The ground was parched and burning and more than one plowshare was broken in the
hard sunbaked soil, afterward softened and made arable by turning upon it ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Charky, adj. dry, sunbaked. Chate or Chut, n. the Grasshopper Warbler. Chats, n.
chips of wood; short sticks, &c. Chaun, n. a crack in the earth, ..."
6. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"On the ruins of this primeval city arose a great fortress, girt with a wall of
sunbaked brick, built on strong stone foundations. There were three gates, ..."
7. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"The other day he went through the new state and found, where before he had seen
sunbaked forbidding desert, sleek dairy cattle grazing knee-deep in alfalfa ..."
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