windburned

English

Alternative forms

windburnt

Etymology

From wind +‎ burned.

Adjective

windburned (comparative more windburned, superlative most windburned)

Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn.
- 1916, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Lord Northcliffe’s War Book, New York: George H. Doran, ‘What to Send “Your Soldier”,’ p. 55,^[1]
  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.
- 1925, Zane Grey, chapter 13, in Captives of the Desert‎^[2], Roslyn, NY: Walter J. Black:
  A more vivid red mounted the boy’s windburned face.
- 1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, published 1982, Chapter , p. 193:
  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.
Of plants: dried or damaged by the wind.
- 1870 July, Charles Warren Stoddard, “Sail Ho!”, in The Overland Monthly, volume 5, number 1, page 30:
  The morning air blew down a fragrant whiff,
  Combing the wind-burnt grasses on the cliff.
- 1939 November, California Garden, volume 31, number 5, page 7:
  […] 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.
- 2005, Anne and Simon Harrap, Orchids of Britain and Ireland, London: A&C Black, 2nd edition, “Lindisfarne Helleborine,” p. 124,^[3]
  By flowering time many leaves are wind-burnt, grazed or otherwise damaged.