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

  • But I can get a bad sunburn, which is brand new for me ...
  • My sunburn is the biggest of my problems, so it turned out well too.
  • The best way to prevent sunburn is to always wear sunscreen with SPF protection.
  • BALCH: You know, it makes no more sense to have a sunburn, which is an injury to your skin, than it is to put your hand in scalding water.
  • Redheads get more common the farther out in the Atlantic you go because the skies are more overcast, so the chance of a bad sunburn is less.
  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, it makes no more sense to have a sunburn, which is an injury to your skin, than it is to put your hand in scalding water.
  • An old wives tale promoted raw potato to treat sunburn is one of the things we read when researching about 12 years ago and decided to make a soap with actual potato.

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