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Sunned

Sun \Sun\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sunned; p. pr. & vb. n. Sunning.] To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.

Then to sun thyself in open air.
--Dryden.

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sunned

vb. (en-pastsun)

WordNet
sun
  1. n. a typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system; "the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system"

  2. the rays of the sun; "the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind" [syn: sunlight, sunshine]

  3. a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc

  4. any star around which a planetary system evolves

  5. first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians [syn: Sunday, Lord's Day, Dominicus]

  6. [also: sunning, sunned]

sun
  1. v. expose one's body to the sun [syn: sunbathe]

  2. expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun; "insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble"; "These herbs suffer when sunned" [syn: insolate, solarize, solarise]

  3. [also: sunning, sunned]

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Usage examples of "sunned".

That explained his presence in the infirmary corridor, and his unconventional clothes, for the islanders appeared to prefer the browns and tans that emphasized their sunned skins.

As she went she gathered wildflowers, the meadowsweet and valerian that sunned themselves among the grass.

Gardens were drenched with color as the flowers sunned themselves in the watery light.

It is removed from the case, or cover, also, of course, when it is sunned, set forth to draw in power and medicine from the yellow, life-giving, blazing star of two worlds, Sol or Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Stone.

Somewhere beyond the battening, urged sweep of three-bedroom houses rushing by their thousands across all the dark beige hills, somehow implicit in an arrogance or bite to the smog the more inland somnolence of San Narciso did lack, lurked the sea, the unimaginable Pacific, the one to which all surfers, beach pads, sewage disposal schemes, tourist incursions, sunned homosexuality, chartered fishing are irrelevant, the hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile.

On the one day in a hundred that the mists parted, the primitives had sunned themselves on these rocky outcroppings, unlike the primitives on the previous world, unlike its own creators, who, until the Winnowing, were unable ever to leave the supporting water even for brief moments.