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Meaning of frostburned | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Afflicted with frostburn.

Examples

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
His frostburned face glowed with a wild joy as he shook his flintlock in the direction of the firing.”
The Rose droops in the death-cold blast. Its velvet petals, red as heart's blood, begin to wither, frostburned.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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