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SUNBURNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight
Synonyms:
sunburned; sunburnt
Classified under:
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb sunburn
Context examples:
Only when all these precautions had been taken and tested did he turn his sunburned aquiline face to his guest.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He felt a shock himself, and a blush of embarrassment shone faintly on his sunburned cheeks, though to him it burned as hotly as when his cheeks had been exposed to the open furnace-door in the fire-room.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The ill-fitting clothes, battered hands, and sunburned face remained; but these seemed the prison-bars through which she saw a great soul looking forth, inarticulate and dumb because of those feeble lips that would not give it speech.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
