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Sunbakes vs Sunbaked - What's the difference?

sunbakes | sunbaked |

As verbs the difference between sunbakes and sunbaked

is that sunbakes is third-person singular of sunbake while sunbaked is past tense of sunbake.

As an adjective sunbaked is

baked by the heat of the sun.

sunbakes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sunbake)

    • sunbake

    English

    Verb

    (sunbak)
  • To bake in the sun.
  • * 2005 , Gillian Mears, Here is the Heartflower'', Frank Moorhouse (editor), ''The Best Australian Stories 2005 , page 136,
    • Oh, she wants to moan with pain, thinking of Richard lying down on the sunbaking rock, naked as well.
  • * 2005 , MaryLee Knowlton, Uzbekistan , page 103,
    • Their pots also were made of sunbaked mud, unfired and unglazed, though sometimes richly engraved.
  • * 2005 September, Grant Parsons, Cajun Coast'', '' , page 29,
    • We roll in just before sunset, after all the day-tourists have left, and the sunbaked collection of cabins, aging hotels, restaurants and oil depots has a strangely deserted feel that?s oddly appealing.
  • * 2011 , Sera L. Young, Craving Earth: Understanding Pica: the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk , page 64,
    • Larvae do not survive well in the clayey soils preferred by most geophagists, and if they do, they are generally killed by the sunbaking , air drying, and heating that many geophagists do to their soil prior to consumption (cf. chapter 1).
  • (Australia, New Zealand) To sunbathe.
  • * 2003 , Caroline Daley, Leisure and Pleasure , Auckland University Press, page 132,
    • Ancient precedents were important in establishing the long, lost history of the benefits of sunbaking . Journalists noted that ‘The ancients? had recognised the importance of sunlight as a cure for disease; now modern New Zealanders had to do the same.
  • * 2006 , Sharyn Munro, The Woman on the Mountain , 2010, ReadHowYouWant, page 249,
    • It was spent supervising sandcastles and shell collections, soggy towels and gritty kids, with hardly a minute to ourselves for sunbaking .
  • * 2007 , Lee Mylne, Frommer?s Portable Australia?s Great Barrier Reef , page 66,
    • The boat carries only 14 passengers and makes a stop at Michaelmas Cay where you can get off the boat, sunbake on the cay, swim in the shallow waters, and snorkel off the beach.
  • * 2009 , , page 105,
    • Inspired, I spent the summer holidays practising Chopin instead of sunbaking by Sophia?s pool.

    Related terms

    *sunbaker

    sunbaked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sunbake)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Baked by the heat of the sun.
  • * 1867 , Robert Tomes, The Champagne Country , page 112,
    • Though tempered in hotter climates, I had no sooner driven out of the sombre hotel and the deep shade of the great Cathedral, by which it has been darkened for ages, than I was conscious that the temperature of Rheims even could occasionally rise to a height to test the endurance of the most sunbaked .
  • * 1995 (1966), Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds (translator), The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II , Volume 1, page 235,
    • Morocco is another, more sunbaked Italy.
  • * 2008 , Seth Greenland, Shining City , page 85,
    • He found his way to San Pedro, which, with its rolling topography and adjacent harbor, bore a certain resemblance to a more sunbaked County Cork, a quality that attracted more than a few Irish, many of whom worked unloading cargo from around the world.