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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