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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(humorous) A notional burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to heavy rain..
It started with neck and upper body sores that looked a bit like rainburn - but usually they had only two or three of them.
I have seen sunburn/windburn and 'rainburn' affect horses over the years but this did not fit any of those causes […]
He peered out, glancing at the sky. 'We'd better get under cover before it starts raining,' he said, breathing heavily. 'We don't want to get rainburn.'
Use rainburn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rainburn means (humorous) A notional burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to heavy rain..
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It started with neck and upper body sores that looked a bit like rainburn - but usually they had only two or three of them.
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