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A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
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sunburn
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Sunburn is a 1999 film directed by Nelson Hume. The film stars Cillian Murphy , Paloma Baeza , and Barry Ward . The film is about a group of young Irish people who spend the summer in the USA.
WordNet
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n. a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun [syn: tan , suntan , burn ] redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun [syn: erythema solare ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunburn \Sun"burn`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sunburned or Sunburnt ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sunburning .] To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. --Dryden.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His only injuries were sunburn , insect bites and chafing caused by spending more than 40 hours in his wetsuit. ▪ Many adults skin problems begin with childhood sunburn . ▪ Much worse is the link between serious sunburn and deadly ...
Usage examples of sunburn.
Mrs Palk had painted calamine on his sunburned legs, but they were very sore and tender, and although he tried to hide the pain he winced every time he took a step.
When he opened his eyes he saw Chara swimming towards him, the paleness of fright dulling the bronze of her sunburn.
I was suddenly conscious of the beat-up old dungarees and my hairy and sunburned nakedness from the waist up, and was a little burned at the same time because I was conscious of it.
He showed the same lesson to an orchardman from Goson, whose name was Korin, to the potter, Kosul, from his own group, and to a woman from the west, Maol, a farmwife who blushed redder than sunburn, but who understood what he wished to say.
He remembered, as if in an old legend, a sunburned California youth in a garish pachuco jacket, painting vans in a body shop.
Now his blue eyes looked bright and idealistic in his sunburned, ascetic face, as he climbed down to cover me with another one of those rustless belly-guns he seemed to have got a bushel of somewhere.
To the suited inhabitants of Samstead, sunburn was an alien affliction.
He turned and looked into the sunburned, battle-scarred face of a grizzled veteran, recognizing the man as the same vajra commander they had encountered on the cliff south of the Sarayu, just after they left the raj-marg.
Three or four of the men round the fire were evidently underkeepers and verderers from the forest, sunburned and bearded, with the quick restless eye and lithe movements of the deer among which they lived.
Bryan was in the wading pool, with his body covered up with soaking towels to preclude more sunburn.
He was a beefy, red-faced man in his mid-fifties, muscled where Hubert was merely fat, his sunburned hands scarred and callused from years of wielding a sword.
The father lay inert upon the white bed, Mr Massy looked queer and obliterated, so little now that the sailor with his sunburned skin was in the room.
At the same moment Sacheverell saw Phil and his sunburned top disappeared from the saucer as swiftly as a hand puppet jerked below stage.
The pain in withdrawal was the extreme feeling of anxiety that Ryan remembered wella raw, hypersensitive feeling, like a sunburned nervous systemwanting to either take a drink or go out the window.
The anger seemed to drop from him, and his face looked strained all at once, the dark sunburn looking almost sickly in the queer crosslights of the church.