sunburn

UK /ˈsʌnˌbɜːn/ US /ˈsʌnˌbɜɹn/
noun 3verb 2name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.

2

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.

3

Suntan.

The neutral colours showed off her café au lait sunburn.

verb

1

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.

2

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

1

The ship of characters Sunny (or Omori) and Aubrey from the videogame Omori.

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