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In some senses, sunburn is marked as slang, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.
A burn on the tissue of crop plants or their fruits (especially if they are rich in water like tomatoes, grapes, apples, gooseberries) caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.
Suntan.
The neutral colours showed off her café au lait sunburn.
verb
To receive a sunburn.
c. 1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, London: D.N. and T.C., 1678, Act V, Scene 2, p. 64, I have brought Your grace a Salamanders skin, to keep you From sun-burning.
1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, No. 81, 28 December, 1724, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, Volume 2, p. 199, […] there is a Country, in the World, call’d Turkey; where Women are secur’d against the Danger of Sun-burning, by being kept out of the open Air, and lock’d up, like other Jewels, in Places where no Mischief can reach ’em.
To burn or tan (someone's skin) by the sun; to allow (a part of one's body) to become sunburnt.
My Aunt charg’d me not to pull off my Glove for fear of Sun-burning my hand.
As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert […]
name
The ship of characters Sunny (or Omori) and Aubrey from the videogame Omori.