adust

Adjective
  1. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight (synset 302562716)
    "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats"
    similar to: dry - free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
    same as: baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked
  2. Burned brown by the sun (synset 300245676)
    "of an adust complexion"
    domain usage: archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression
    similar to: brunet, brunette - marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes

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