chapped

/t͡ʃæpt/

adj 2

Collocations

ADJ.

all, chubby, dry, longer, red

VERB + CHAPPED

feel, get, got, hands

CHAPPED + NOUN

lips, nipples, skin, tincture, winter

PREP.

in, with

ADV.

badly, often, severely

Definitions

adj

Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.

For chapped lips, or chapped nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, […] / For severely chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor […]

[…] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.

Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.

This wide-chopt-raſcall, would thou mightſt lye drowning the waſhing of ten Tides.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure

cracked
roughened

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

For chapped lips, or chapped nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, […] / For severely chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor […]

Wiktionary

[…] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.

Wiktionary

His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.

Wiktionary

I have chapped lips.

Tatoeba · #268877

After spending hours out in the cold winter wind, my skin got all chapped and dry.

Tatoeba · #279636

In winter, our lips get chapped.

Tatoeba · #279646

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