sunburn
IPA: sˈʌnbɝn
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.
verb
- (intransitive) To receive a sunburn.
- (transitive) To burn or tan (someone's skin) by the sun; to allow (a part of one's body) to become sunburnt.
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Examples of "sunburn" in Sentences
- He had the sunburn at the beach.
- Isn't that what causes sunburn and the rest
- As it appears, the sunburn is clearly evident.
- My knees and arms have the worst of the sunburn.
- It causes sunburn and it triggers the production of melanin.
- In mitigation, he was suffering from the effects of sunburn.
- On the other hand, it shows the damage of sunburn quite well.
- I renamed it and worked it into the section on sunburn and skin cancer.
- Generally they suffer the equivalent of a bad sunburn on the exposed area.
- Sunburn is a condition of the skin after overexposure to ultraviolet radiation.