sunburn

[ suhn-burn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, sun·burned or sun·burnt, sun·burn·ing.

to affect or be affected with sunburn:
An hour in the sun sunburned me severely. I sunburn easily.

sunburn

/ ˈsʌnˌbɜːn /

inflammation of the skin caused by overexposure to the sun Technical nameerythema solare
another word for suntan

Origin of sunburn¹

First recorded in 1520–30; sun + burn ¹

The SunSprite has a UV sensor, which warns you when the rays get intense enough to cause sunburn.

Here's one way to avoid a sunburn: wear a Face-Kini next time you're on the beach.

His complexion was so reddened and darkened by sunburn that his untanned forehead looked unnaturally white and delicate.

His teeth were clenched; his face, through the sunburn, livid; the blue of his eyes seemed to have faded into an ashen grey.

The other had gone quite white, or at any rate as white as his bronze sunburn would allow.

Bart wondered, suddenly and worriedly, about the effects of green sunburn on his chemically altered skin tone.

His nose was peeled from sunburn, but his round and rubicund face fairly oozed good humour.

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