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BAKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven)
Example:
baked goods
Classified under:
Similar:
cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
Example:
sunbaked salt flats
Synonyms:
adust; baked; parched; scorched; sunbaked
Classified under:
Similar:
dry (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb bake
Context examples:
It was fine open walking here, upon the summit; our way lay a little downhill, for, as I have said, the plateau tilted towards the west. The pines, great and small, grew wide apart; and even between the clumps of nutmeg and azalea, wide open spaces baked in the hot sunshine.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Astonishingly, three-toed sloths, which are more specialized to their environment, expend as little as 460 kilojoules of energy a day, the equivalent of burning a mere 110 calories — roughly the same number of calories in a baked potato.
(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)
“Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago,” cried the loaves as before.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
But about the middle of the day she gets hungry, and there is nothing she likes so well as these baked apples, and they are extremely wholesome, for I took the opportunity the other day of asking Mr. Perry; I happened to meet him in the street.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
What did you have in you? —some childish notions, a few half-baked sentiments, a lot of undigested beauty, a great black mass of ignorance, a heart filled to bursting with love, and an ambition as big as your love and as futile as your ignorance.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The hay was all got in; the fields round Thornfield were green and shorn; the roads white and baked; the trees were in their dark prime; hedge and wood, full-leaved and deeply tinted, contrasted well with the sunny hue of the cleared meadows between.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Look sharp or you’ll get doused, was Mr. Mugridge’s parting injunction, as I left the galley with a big tea-pot in one hand, and in the hollow of the other arm several loaves of fresh-baked bread.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He led him to the king’s palace where all the flour in the whole Kingdom was collected, and from it he caused a huge mountain of bread to be baked.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He contrived that she should be seated by him; and was sufficiently employed in looking out the best baked apple for her, and trying to make her help or advise him in his work, till Jane Fairfax was quite ready to sit down to the pianoforte again.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker’s oven full of bread, and the loaves cried out to her, Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
