sunburnt

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English sunne brente, equivalent to sun +‎ burnt.

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sunburnt (comparative more sunburnt, superlative most sunburnt)

  1. (of human skin) Having a sunburn or dark tan; having been burned by the sun's rays.
    • 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 IV, scene i]:
      You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, / Come hither from the furrow and be merry:
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 171:
      […] I must beg leave to say for my self, that I am as fair as most of my Sex and Country, and very little sun-burnt by my Travels.
    • 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter XII, in The Woodlanders […], volume II, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 230:
      He looked and smelt like Autumn’s very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains […]
    • 2000, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay‎[1], New York: Random House, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 168:
      His face was sunburned bright red, and the skin of his ears was peeling.
  2. (of plants and other objects) Dried out by the sun's rays.
    • 1753, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s-Inn Journal, No. 53, 20 October, 1753, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, Volume 2, p. 191,[2]
      The barren Heath, and the Sun-burnt craggy Soil appear with all those Softenings to the Eye, which Distance throws upon a Landscape;
    • 1842, Charles Dickens, chapter VII, in American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 267:
      the well-remembered dusty road and sun-burnt fields
    • 1847, William H. Prescott, chapter X, in A History of the Conquest of Peru, volume II, page 73:
      The […] fortress of the Incas stood on a lofty eminence, the steep sides of which […] were cut into terraces, defended by strong walls of stone and sunburnt brick.
    • 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 13, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 329:
      [O]ut on to the bare hillside’s sunburnt grass
  3. (of places or objects) Subject to the strong heat and/or light of the sun.
    • 1790, Samuel Jackson Pratt, The New Cosmetic: or The Triumph of Beauty‎[3], London, act I, page 3:
      So my dear Charles, you are at length […] arrived in our little sun-burnt island?
    • 1856, John Ruskin, chapter 16, in Modern Painters […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part V (Of Mountain Beauty), page 251:
      […] when distances are obscured by mist […] the foreground assumes all its loveliest hues, the grass and foliage revive into their perfect green, and every sunburnt rock glows into an agate.
    • 1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat‎[4], New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 536:
      Most of it [the island of Mauritius] was high […] so that gusts of fresh winds often blew exuberantly off the sea, and the British could build their villas far above the sunburnt coast.
  4. Resembling a sunburn in color.
    The van was painted a sunburnt brown.

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Verb[edit]

sunburnt

  1. simple past and past participle of sunburn
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