baked 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of bakednext
as in dehydrated

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baked

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verb

past tense of bake
as in incinerated

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for baked
  1. sunbaked
  2. parched
  3. bone-dry
  4. ignited
  5. inflamed
Adjective
  • Eventually, baseball—the sport of sunbaked afternoons, a sport made beautiful and strange by its exposure to the elements—may be unrecognizable.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2024
  • By mid-morning, the sunbaked terrace is flooded with tourists and townspeople drinking palest rosé before lunch service begins in earnest.
    Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2024
Definition of sunbaked
Adjective
  • The combination of ferocious winds and a parched landscape created ideal conditions for the fast-moving fires that have consumed large swaths of Los Angeles this week.
    Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • In this case, extremely wet conditions are followed almost immediately by parched weather patterns, typically accompanied by above average temperatures.
    Andrew Freedman, Axios, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of parched
Adjective
  • Climate change — particularly whiplash between two wet winters followed by a bone-dry, unusually hot spring, summer and fall — set the stage for Los Angeles' deadly and devastating fires, scientists say.
    Andrew Freedman, Axios, 12 Jan. 2025
  • But conditions are not normally bone-dry when the winds gust through the mountains of Southern California toward the Pacific coast.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of bone-dry
Verb
  • The controversy ignited when Al-Shaair delivered a late, hard hit on Lawrence while the quarterback slid on a second-quarter play in the Texans’ Week 13 win over the Jags.
    Rebecca Tauber, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • As the show began, a vicious fire spread when a sparking stage light ignited nearby curtains.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of ignited
Verb
  • People with open skin lesions, inflamed acne or skin, raised scars, skin cancer, and rosacea should avoid dermaplanning.
    Carley Millhone, Health, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Pink eye is what occurs when the thin membrane that lines the white of the eye and the eyelid becomes infected and inflamed.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of inflamed
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