chapped en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /t͡ʃæpt/
Meanings
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(of skin) Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.
His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.
2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y: Vintage Books, page 134:For chapped lips, or chapped nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, […] / For severely chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor […]
1854, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Healthy skin: a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management:[…] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.
1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
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(in-compounds) Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.
This wide-chopt-raſcall, would thou mightſt lye drowning the waſhing of ten Tides.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more chapped | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most chapped | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
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Translations (20)
ru обве́тренный (of skin: dry and flaky) · la rīmōsus (of skin: dry and flaky) · pl spierzchły (of skin: dry and flaky) · mi tāpā (of skin: dry and flaky) · hu kicserepesedett (of skin: dry and flaky) · mi raupā (of skin: dry and flaky) · pl spierzchnięty (of skin: dry and flaky) · hu cserepes (of skin: dry and flaky) · ru потрескавшийся (of skin: dry and flaky) · fr gercé (of skin: dry and flaky) · mi pātotoi (of skin: dry and flaky) · de rissig (of skin: dry and flaky) · de aufgesprungen (of skin: dry and flaky) · es agrietado (of skin: dry and flaky) · fi rohtunut (of skin: dry and flaky) · it screpolato (of skin: dry and flaky) · ar مُشَقَّق (of skin: dry and flaky) · hu repedezett (of skin: dry and flaky) · bg напукан (of skin: dry and flaky) · cs popraskaný (of skin: dry and flaky)