Definition of 'adust'

Adjective

1. dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats"
      Synonyms: baked parched scorched sunbaked
2. burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott

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