Meaning

Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn.
2. Of plants: dried or damaged by the wind.

Example Sentences

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.

A more vivid red mounted the boy’s windburned face.

I am woken by a pounding on the door of my apartment. It is a man with a lantern, windburnt, gaunt, out of breath, in a solder’s greatcoat too large for him.

2005, Anne and Simon Harrap, Orchids of Britain and Ireland, London: A&C Black, 2nd edition, “Lindisfarne Helleborine,” p. 124, By flowering time many leaves are wind-burnt, grazed or otherwise damaged.

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

[…] the same general rules apply to wind-burned trees as to those injured by frost. You should wait until the full extent of the injury is apparent before cutting back.

Word Forms

• more windburned
• most windburned
• windburnt

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When Should You Use Windburned?

Use windburned when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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