BAKED Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

Definition of baked

as in dehydrated

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verb

past tense of bake

as in incinerated

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Inside the venue, each place setting was adorned in part by one of the nearly 200 cake pops sized, measured and baked by organizing committee member Shaikh, who not only committed the week prior to bake for the ball, but also enjoyed developing a sisterhood with the rest of the organizers. — Mariana Navarrete Villegas, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026

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Adjective

The experience of eating it is even more shocking … the electric crunch of passionfruit seeds giving way to exploding citrus vesicles, glimmering like wayward teardrop gems … and … was that a dehydrated banana?

— Cooking Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
The masks are made from hydrogel, which, Dixneuf says, is particularly well-suited for dehydrated, puffy, and tired eyes.

— Jenny Berg, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025

Definition of dehydrated

Verb

Crystal’s house at 860 Chautauqua Boulevard in Pacific Palisades was incinerated in the wildfire of early January 2025.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
The Food and Drug Administration recommends disposing of drugs by dropping them off at a take-back location or by mailing them using a prepaid envelope that is delivered to a facility where the drugs are incinerated.

— Sunny Linnebur, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of incinerated

Adjective

French Press Coffee sits alongside deep, mossy greens, nuanced neutrals, warm sunbaked tones, and a handful of more expressive accents, all working together to create spaces that feel personal and restorative.

— Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 1 Oct. 2026
The wind had completely died down, and there were fewer passersby on the sunbaked streets.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of sunbaked

Verb

Matthew O’Brien told jurors that surveillance images, cellphone location records and fire science would establish that Rinderknecht intentionally ignited brush on a Pacific Palisades hillside in the first minutes of New Year’s Day 2025.

— Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Bass was out of the country when the Palisades Fire ignited and caught the fire department unprepared despite days of warnings about the potential for powerful winds and bone-dry weather.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of ignited

Adjective

There are many routes that can take you east from the 395 and deep into the parched heart of these landscapes, but there is one route that stands above the rest.

— Josh Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
After a few parched years Arizona was bailed out by the federal government, which built a reservoir so the people of the Salt River Valley would never again experience privation.

— Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of parched

Adjective

Deck said 20,000 to 25,000 tons of bone-dry biomass are available each year at the landfill.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
In fact, just days earlier, the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel had slammed the coastline and dumped rain over the region — although not enough to significantly moisten the bone-dry vegetation.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of bone-dry

Verb

Now that fall is on the horizon, hope has been kindled for abundant rainfall.

— Robert Klose, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026
As the current Cartoonist Laureate of the state, she has been highly engaged in Vermont culture and history, and says her interest in this couple was kindled by Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup, director of Vermont Humanities, who encouraged her to tell their story.

— Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026

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