baked

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The earth was sun-baked, and the explorer declared that no water had fallen here for possibly a year or more, which the boys could well believe.

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  1. adjective Cooked by baking.
  2. adjective Slang Drunk or intoxicated.

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  • He would not permit any other sort to be baked, and the Royal Family partook of the same quality of bread as was eaten by the servants A great deal of flour was used as hair powder, and an attempt was made to check its use. —  At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History
  • So they are still baked, and still eaten, those brave little Hearts of Arras--and Brian asked Father Beckett to bring me a box They bought it of a cousin of my old woman, an ancient man who had lurked in a cellar during the whole of the bombardment. —  Everyman's Land
  • His wife had stopped her sewing and was looking straight into his eyes Angelus To Hephzibah the world was a place of weary days and unrestful nights, and life was a thing of dishes that were never quite washed and of bread that was never quite baked--leaving something always to be done The sun rose and the sun set, and Hephzibah came to envy the sun. —  The Tangled Threads
  • After having been baked, these are strung on a stick and left to dry under the beams of the baking-room. —  Yule-Tide in Many Lands
  • It was all ready to be baked, and she unsuspectingly whisked the pan into the oven. —  Big Brother
 

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