sun
/sʌn/ verb C2- To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun. · Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
- To warm or dry in the sunshine.
- To be exposed to the sun.
- To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
He/she/it suns · Past sunned · Past participle sunned · -ing form sunning
Verb forms
- Base form
- sun
- He/she/it
- suns
- Past
- sunned
- Past participle
- sunned
- -ing form
- sunning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“What shall we do now?” asked the Tin Woodman, as the Lion lay down on the grass to let the sun dry him.
When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto had long been out chasing birds around him and squirrels.
“She was so old,” explained the Witch of the North, “that she dried up quickly in the sun.
“My body shone so brightly in the sun that I felt very proud of it and it did not matter now if my axe slipped, for it could not cut me.
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