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windburned en · ADJ

Etymology

From wind + burned.

Meanings

1. Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn.
   • 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. 1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, published 1982, Chapter , p. 193:
   • 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. 1925, Zane Grey, chapter 13, in Captives of the Desert, Roslyn, NY: Walter J. Black:
2. Of plants: dried or damaged by the wind.
   • The morning air blew down a fragrant whiff, Combing the wind-burnt grasses on the cliff. 1870 July, Charles Warren Stoddard, “Sail Ho!”, in The Overland Monthly, volume 5, number 1, page 30:
   • […] 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. 1939 November, California Garden, volume 31, number 5, page 7:
   • 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.

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