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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