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1. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
   "land lying baked in the heat";
   - adust [archaic], parched, scorched, sunbaked
    
2. (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven)
   "baked goods"

1. (cooking) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
   "bake the potatoes"
    
2. Prepare with dry heat in an oven
   "bake a cake"
    
3. Heat by a natural force
   "The sun bakes the valley in the summer";
   - broil [N. Amer], grill
    
4. Be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
   "the tourists were baking in the heat";
   - broil [N. Amer], grill

See also: cooked, dry

Type of: be, cook, create from raw material, create from raw stuff, heat, heat up

Encyclopedia: Baked