scorched

adjectives

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, scorched, sunbaked

having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy

"Sherman's scorched earth policy"

scorched

is similar to

spoiled or ruined or demolished

"war left many cities destroyed"; "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind"