sunburn
/ˈsʌnˌbɝn/ verb C2- To receive a sunburn.
- To burn or tan (someone's skin) by the sun; to allow (a part of one's body) to become sunburnt.
He/she/it sunburns · Past sunburned · Past participle sunburned · -ing form sunburning
Verb forms
- Base form
- sunburn
- He/she/it
- sunburns
- Past
- sunburned
- Past participle
- sunburned
- -ing form
- sunburning
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He is a tall man, sunburned, very powerful, not more than thirty.
A tall, sunburned, capable-looking, clean-shaved man looked in at us.
Dodd, a big, fresh, sunburned, upstanding Briton.
One could see that he had indeed been a handsome man with clear-cut features sunburned by an African sun, but mottled in patches over this darker surface were curious whitish patches which had bleached his skin.
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