adust

Definitions of adust
  1. adjective
    dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
    “a vast desert all adust”
    synonyms: baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked
    dry
    free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
  2. adjective
    burned brown by the sun
    “"of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott”
    synonyms:
    brunet, brunette
    marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
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