windburn
IPA: wˈaɪndbɝn
noun
- (medicine) An irritation of the skin caused by exposure to the wind.
- Damage to a plant caused by cold and windy conditions that dry out the leaves.
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Examples of "windburn" in Sentences
- Here are my beans and courgettes on the doorstep yesterday, recovering from windburn.
- With winter comes the inevitable windburn that depletes moisture and ravages the skin.
- With the top down and a max speed of 155 mph it will give you and three trusting friends the windburn of your lives.
- The effects of windburn and dry skin can wreck havoc on the eye area, but taking the time to use an eye mask in the a.m. can make a world of difference.
- If I took a box of books down to the concourse at DFW airport and tried to sell them, the store managers would have security whisking me into the street so fast you'd get windburn from the rush.
- In truth, I am fishing — freezing my butt off, to be sure, and catching nothing at the moment but a vicious windburn from the Arctic air mass that's blasting down the throat of Montana's Madison River Valley.
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