scorched

(s) 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
adust, baked, parched, sunbaked,
(s) having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy
- Sherman's scorched earth policy

adust baked parched sunbaked

scorcher

scorched-earth policy