scorched

Adjective

• having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy
  • Sherman's scorched earth policy
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  adust , baked , parched , sunbaked