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  • noun Sunburn; tan.

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  • verb Present participle of sunburn.

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Examples

  • After lunch there was a general indulging of the children which involved sitting around, renting a paddle boat, sunburning, etc.

    The Cheese Run « Unknowing 2010

  • His father had brown eyes and hair; his own eyes were hazel, his hair “sandy red-brown,” his complexion that of a “freckly-faced, sunburning kind of guy.”

    A Claim to Camelot Friend, David 2008

  • Personally, I thought sunburning was unhealthy. but that's just me.

    "I myself find that I trust my own writing most, and others seem to trust it most, too, when I sound most like a person from Indianapolis..." Ann Althouse 2008

  • The dermatologist thinks that repeated sunburning of that part of the skin over many years may have made it more susceptible to blistering, or maybe PeaceBang just plain made that up.

    Hideous Facial Disfigurements PeaceBang 2006

  • Lake Ahquabi, where I did all my formative swimming and sunburning, may not have the romance of Cape Cod or the grandeur of the rockribbed coast of Maine, but then neither did it grab you by the legs and carry you off helplessly to Newfoundland.

    I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999

  • He finds that the deprivation of solar light causes a diminution in the pigment of the skin, and absence of sunburning, but there is no globular anæmia -- that is, diminution in the number of globules in the blood.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various

  • Andrews used to lament very touchingly the sunburning his toe-nails were receiving.

    Andersonville John McElroy 1887

  • Andrews used to lament very touchingly the sunburning his toe-nails were receiving.

    Andersonville — Volume 3 John McElroy 1887

  • His face was covered with those wrinkles which are got in open air, and which rightly looked at, are no more than a sort of permanent sunburning; such wrinkles heighten the stupidity of stupid faces; but to a person like Will, with his clear eyes and smiling mouth, only give another charm by testifying to a simple and easy life.

    Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • "Dinny! how can you!" cried Jack, angrily, as he saw the tears start into his brother's eyes, and that in spite of the sunburning he turned haggard and pale.

    Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870

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