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adjective

Definition of bakednext
as in dehydrated

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verb

past tense of bake
as in incinerated

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Recent Examples of baked
Verb
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baked
  1. dehydrated
  2. incinerated
  3. sunbaked
  4. ignited
  5. parched
  6. lit
  7. bone-dry
  8. kindled
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
  • Each year, the world generates fabric waste at a rate equivalent to a garbage truck’s worth getting dumped or incinerated every second, the United Nations Environment Program estimates.
    — Anne D’Innocenzio, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Another is to pay fishers to catch inedible ones like the puffer fish so they can be incinerated.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Definition of incinerated
Adjective
  • The wind had completely died down, and there were fewer passersby on the sunbaked streets.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The bright yellow Castell General Store doubles as a community center, a place where sunbaked kayakers, cyclists and anglers down cheeseburgers and nurse Lone Star beers.
    — Pam LeBlanc, Southern Living, 20 July 2026
Definition of sunbaked
Verb
  • This launch, followed by E*Trade's even lower 50 bps fee, has ignited a price war, significantly undercutting native crypto exchanges like Coinbase.
    — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The attack ignited a massive blaze at gasoline-storage tank that burned through the night into Tuesday morning, according to the Civil Defense, a first responders’ agency.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of ignited
Adjective
  • Earlier Monday, some residents returned to find their homes leveled by wildfires that erupted across a parched landscape over the weekend, covering yards in charred debris.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Volunteers armed with watering cans, trucks and makeshift water tanks shadow firefighters, battling underground flare-ups in parched pine forests after months without rain and increasingly fire-prone conditions linked to climate change.
    — Mark Carlson, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
Definition of parched
Verb
  • Night lasts about two Earth weeks, and at the poles, only a few ridges stay lit for long stretches.
    — Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The MacBook Neo has lit a fire under PC developers to release competitive, low-cost models of their own, such as the most recent Dell XPS 13.
    — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of lit
Adjective
  • Winds gusting beyond 50 miles per hour at times howled over bone-dry fuels itching to ignite.
    — Murphy Woodhouse, NPR, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The sun is high and hot in early June—a bone-dry 85 degrees Fahrenheit—though the direct light is enough to make my forehead glisten.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 July 2026
Definition of bone-dry
Verb
  • 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
  • The faith of these settlers kindled a fervent Protestant piety, found in the Great Revival of the Ohio Valley frontier.
    — Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
Definition of kindled

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