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frostburned en · ADJ

Etymology

From frostburn + -ed.

Meanings

1. Afflicted with frostburn.
   • Now I had heard of hunting slaves with blood-hounds, but never thought of actually seeing such a chase. Sympathy for the fugitive, quickened by impulsive, wrath against his pursuer, whoever he might be, shook me through; and when the dogs doing the baying burst out of the woods, half a dozen of them, and, taking the fence at a bound, came crashing through the frostburned corn-stalks, I confess to being ready to kill 1906, Lew Wallace, Lew Wallace; an Autobiography, page 359:
   • The Rose droops in the death-cold blast. Its velvet petals, red as heart's blood, begin to wither, frostburned. 2013, Sarah Ash, Songspinners:
   • His frostburned face glowed with a wild joy as he shook his flintlock in the direction of the firing. 1945, George Tracy Marsh, Ask No Quarter, page 20:

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