Meaning of windburned | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn.
2. Of plants: dried or damaged by the wind.

Examples

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“The morning air blew down a fragrant whiff, Combing the wind-burnt grasses on the cliff.”

“[…] 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, By flowering time many leaves are wind-burnt, grazed or otherwise damaged.”

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