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sunbaked

sunbaked is the simple past and past participle of sunbake.

Adjective

sunbaked (comparative more sunbaked, superlative most sunbaked)

  1. Baked by the heat of the sun.
    • Though tempered in hotter climates, I had no sooner driven out of the sombre hotel and the deep shade of the great Cathedral, by which it has been darkened for ages, than I was conscious that the temperature of Rheims even could occasionally rise to a height to test the endurance of the most...1867, Robert Tomes, The Champagne Country, page 112
    • 1995 (1966), Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds (translator), The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume 1, page 235,
      Morocco is another, more sunbaked Italy.
  2. (figuratively) Suntanned

Meaning of sunbake

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
  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

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Forms of sunbaked

comparativemore sunbaked
superlativemost sunbaked

Questions about sunbaked

What does sunbaked mean?
Sunbaked means baked by the heat of the sun.
What is sunbaked the simple past and past participle of?
Sunbaked is the simple past and past participle of sunbake.
What part of speech is sunbaked?
Sunbaked is an adjective.

Words near sunbaked in the dictionary

  1. sunback
  2. sunbacks
  3. sunbae
  4. sunbaes
  5. sunbake
  6. sunbaked
  7. sunbaker
  8. sunbakers
  9. sunbakes
  10. sunbaking
  11. sunbath

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunbaked (page history and authors); sunbake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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