ADUST
\ɐdˈʌst], \ɐdˈʌst], \ɐ_d_ˈʌ_s_t]\
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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"
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burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott
By Princeton University
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
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Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
By Oddity Software
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Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
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Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
By Noah Webster.
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