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Windburned

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn.

    "1916, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Lord Northcliffe’s War Book, New York: George H. Doran, ‘What to Send “Your Soldier”,’ p. 55, Vaseline is a good gift. It can be used for may purposes. It serves as a lubricant. It eases feet that have marched far. It is good for burns. It relieves the pain of sunburnt or windburnt skin."

  2. 2
    Of plants: dried or damaged by the wind.

    "The morning air blew down a fragrant whiff, Combing the wind-burnt grasses on the cliff."

Adjective
  1. 1
    suffering from windburn wordnet

Etymology

From wind + burned.

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