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Sunburn   /sˈənbˌərn/   Listen
Sunburn

noun
1.
A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun.  Synonyms: burn, suntan, tan.
2.
Redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun.  Synonym: erythema solare.
verb
(past & past part. sunburned or sunburnt; pres. part. sunburning)
1.
Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun.  Synonym: burn.






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"Sunburn" Quotes from Famous Books



... nearly half-past eleven when Martin came in. He was in riding-costume and was covered with dirt. His eyes, rimmed with dust, looked out of a face that was pale beneath the sunburn. He threw himself into a chair with an ...
— The Vultures • Henry Seton Merriman

... and very satisfactory for long tramps through the woods. The rubber soles give a firm footing on slippery moss and dead leaves, while high heels might cause a wrenched ankle or a bad fall. It is perfectly allowable for a girl to wear a broad-brimmed hat to avoid sunburn, which might be so serious as to spoil a vacation. A gradually acquired coat of tan is much more desirable. The hat prevents headaches or sunstroke, neither of which may be dared with impunity by a delicate girl, unless she wears her hair on top of ...
— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller

... White-House the night before. His hair was parted in the middle, and thickly pomaded to restrain its natural inclination towards curling. His ears were large, and set on at right angles to his face. His nose was Roman, and its prominence had rendered it peculiarly sensitive to sunburn. His manners were too frank to be polished. As he joined them now, he succeeded in making it evident at once that Flint's further presence was entirely superfluous. This juvenile candor would have had no effect, had not Winifred supplemented ...
— Flint - His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes • Maud Wilder Goodwin

... know, Al. One of them was Jake Bettins and the other was Ed True. The three hit the pike at a regular two-forty clip for the Big Run road. Those birds don't go chasing around on a day like this just to get sunburn, do they?' ...
— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory

... other end of that spectrum, which the human eye is unable to register and detect, but which our apparatus in the laboratory plainly register. The ray of light which registers on the photographic plate, and which causes sunburn on our skin, is too high a rate of vibration for our eyes to perceive. Likewise the X-Rays, and many other of the finer rays of light known to science are imperceptible to the unaided human vision—they are actually "dark rays" so far as the ...
— Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers • Bhakta Vishita


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