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sunbake

sunbake verb: to bake in the sun.

Verb

sunbake (third-person singular simple present sunbakes, present participle sunbaking, simple past and past participle sunbaked)

  1. To bake in the sun.
    • Oh, she wants to moan with pain, thinking of Richard lying down on the sunbaking rock, naked as well.2005, Gillian Mears, “Here is the Heartflower”, in Frank Moorhouse, editor, The Best Australian Stories 2005, page 136
    • Their pots also were made of sunbaked mud, unfired and unglazed, though sometimes richly engraved.2005, MaryLee Knowlton, Uzbekistan, page 103
  2. (Australia, New Zealand) To sunbathe.
    • Such diversion as Podson could extort from his isolation was soon vitiated by repetition. He surfed. He sun-baked - with discretion till his skin had peeled and given him a harder cuticle.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 90
    • 'I saw her,' said Neptune, 'sunbaking topless.'1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 43

Noun

sunbake (plural sunbakes)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A session of sunbathing.
    • It was a simple affair. We were camping down the south coast and one of my friends leapt out of the surf and slammed down onto the beach to have a sunbake – marvellous. We made the image and it's been around, I suppose as a sort of icon of the Australian way of life.1937, Max Dupain, Dupain's Beaches

Forms of sunbake

Verb
third-person singular presentsunbakes
present participlesunbaking
past participlesunbaked
pastsunbaked
Noun
pluralsunbakes

Origin of sunbake

From sun + bake.

Questions about sunbake

What does sunbake mean?
Sunbake means to bake in the sun.
What part of speech is sunbake?
Sunbake can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of sunbake?
The past tense of sunbake is sunbaked.

Words near sunbake in the dictionary

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  6. sunbake
  7. sunbaked
  8. sunbaker
  9. sunbakers
  10. sunbakes
  11. sunbaking

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