sunbaked

[ suhn-beykt ]

/ ˈsʌnˌbeɪkt /

baked by exposure to the sun, as bricks.

heated, dried, or hardened by the heat of the sun.

Origin of sunbaked

1620–30; sun + baked

sun-dried, sun-god, sun., sunback, sunbake, sunbaked, sunbath, sunbathe, sunbeam, sunbed, sunbelt

His skin was so sunbaked as to have changed constitutionally; nothing could ever eradicate that tan.

The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu |Sax Rohmer
One of his boots had also burst, his wide hat was shapeless, and sunbaked mire clung about him to the knees.

Long Odds |Harold Bindloss
Antony had visions of the jealous husbanding of a few drops of hot moisture in a sunbaked leather bottle.

Antony Gray,--Gardener |Leslie Moore
By mid-March the marisma was practically waterless—a fortnight later, sunbaked hard as bricks.

Unexplored Spain |Abel Chapman

As sleep in that sunbaked oven of a room was impossible, the traveller sent for a carriage and went for a drive.

From Jungle to Java |Arthur Keyser

sunbaked

/ (ˈsʌnˌbeɪkt) /

(esp of roads, etc) dried or cracked by the sun's heat

baked hard by the heat of the sun sunbaked bricks