sunburnn.
/ˈsʌnbəːn/, U.S. /ˈsənˌbərn/ 1.
a. The condition of the skin produced by excessive exposure to the sun (or to other sources of ultraviolet light), characterized by redness, heat, soreness, and (in severe cases) blistering; an instance of this. Occasionally also: damage to the cornea of the eye caused by excessive exposure to sunlight or ultraviolet light (= photokeratitis n. at photo- comb. form 1).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > sun or windburn
sunburninga1398
sunburn1584
sunburntness1692
windburn1939
1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx sig. Yv But smile I must to remember, how some with a Maske, a Scarfe, or a Plume, could as formally keepe their olde or black and bad faces from sight, as didde others their beautie from Sunne-burne.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 765 This doth not onely helpe firie faces, but also taketh away lentils, spots, morphew, sunneburne, and all other deformities of the face.
1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra i. i. 3 The Sun-burn and toil of a long Journey, had a little taken off the lustre of his former beauty.
1692 W. Y-Worth Introitus Apertus 168 By the right use thereof Freckles, Sun-burn, Pimples, and Scurf will vanish.
a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 16 My wife..has an excellent Cosmetic Water, to carry off Freckles, Sun-burn, or Pimples.
1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator I. ii. 106 For a Riding Mask to prevent Sunburn.
1810 Encycl. Londinensis VI. 851/2 Ephelis, a spot or freckle which proceeds from a sun-burn.
1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance viii. 77 Our faces took the sunburn kindly.
1893 K. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. Calif. 93 Another morning you may stumble out trying to rub yesterday's sunburn from your eyes.
1936 Pop. Mech. Mag. Nov. 27A/1 (advt.) Protects operator from sparks and welder's ‘sunburn’.
1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 29 July 248/2 It is sunburn of the cornea that causes snow blindness.
2015 Guardian 17 Aug. (G2 section) 12/1 Most skin cancers are non-melanoma; 75% of those are basal cell carcinomas (BCC) related to sunburn.
b. In various extended uses.See also Indian sunburn n. at Indian adj. and n. Compounds 1b(a).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > other diseases or conditions
impetigo1398
deadingc1400
St Anthonyc1405
foulness1559
acrochordon1565
foulness1583
heat1597
bleach1601
Anthony's fire1609
desquamation1726
sivvens1762
erythema1778
rupia1813
morula1817
dermalgia1842
mycosis1846
cheloid1854
keloid1854
morule1857
kelis1864
dermatosis1866
epithelioma1872
vagabond's disease1876
vagabond's skin1876
dermatitis1877
erysipeloid1888
Ritter's disease1888
acanthosis nigricans1890
angiokeratoma1891
sunburn1891
porokeratosis1893
acrodermatitis1894
epidermolysis1894
keratolysis1895
dermographism1896
neurodermatitis1896
peau d'orange1896
X-ray dermatitis1897
dermatomyositis1899
papulo-erythema1899
pyodermia1899
tar acne1899
dermographia1900
radiodermatitis1903
poikiloderma1907
neurodermatosis1909
leishmanoid1922
razor burn1924
pyoderma1930
photodermatosis1931
photodermatitis1933
necrobiosis lipoidica1934
pyoderma gangrenosum1936
fassy1943
acrodermatitis enteropathica1945
chicken skin1946
nylon stocking dermatitis1947
Sézary('s) syndrome1953
pigskin1966
washerwoman's skin1981
strimmer rash1984
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > other muscular disorders
laxity1528
myalgia1860
parelectronomy1877
mounding1891
sunburn1891
neuromyositis1899
polymyalgia rheumatica1933
amyotonia1969
1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 134 He was incapacitated three days with sunburn in his muscles.
1936 Pop. Mech. July 40/1 Paint, like the human skin, suffers from sunburn.
1966 L. Niven in If Oct. 22/2 ‘I noticed you are losing your outer integument in spots.’ ‘Oh, that. I got a bad sunburn from exposure to starlight.’
2. Damage to plant tissues caused by the sun, spec. sun scald or sun scorch (see sun n.1 Compounds 5a); an instance of this. Also: †a fungal disease thought to resemble this (obsolete rare).
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > damage due to environmental conditions
wind-stroke1657
carbunculation1666
firing1693
fire blast1727
houseburning1757
winter-killing1827
sun scald1850
scalding1865
sunburn1865
wind-blow1921
water stress1922
balling1928
windrock1969
wind-rocking1972
Waldsterben1983
1865 Gardeners' Chron. 18 Feb. 149/1 This sort of burn [from fumigation] is easily distinguished from a sunburn by the layer on the under part of the leaf being injured in the highest degree.
1896 E. G. Lodeman Spraying of Plants 364 Leaf Blight; Rust; Sunburn (Sphærella Fragariæ).
1905 Gardeners' Chron. 1 July 2/1 The enumeration of those trees and shrubs that most commonly suffer from sunburn may serve as a guide to intending planters.
1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) vi. 173 Bagging of bunches [of bananas and plantains] protects the fruit against cold, sunburn, dust, spray residue, insects and birds.
2010 Guardian 16 July 39/5 The worst sun damage may not be from summer sunburn but from winter sun scald.
3. A light brown or tan colour reminiscent of sunburn. Cf. suntan n. 2. Now rare.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > other browns
umberc1568
Spanish brown1660
earth colour1688
raw umber1702
iron brown1714
clove-brown1794
raw sienna1797
wood-brown1805
moorit1809
coffee1815
oak1815
burnt almond1850
Vandyke brown1850
Turk's head1853
catechu brown1860
oak brown1860
mummy brown1861
walnut-brown1865
Havana1873
havana brown1875
wax-brown1887
box1889
nutria1897
caramel1909
wallflower brown1913
cigar1923
desert-brown1923
sunburn1923
tobacco1923
maple1926
butterscotch1927
walnut1934
snuff1951
mink1955
toffee1960
sludge1962
earth-tone1973
1923 Daily Mail 11 Sept. 11 Nude, Sunburn, Mulatto, and all shades.
1932 Barker's Sales Catal. 27 Poplin tennis shirts... Guaranteed fast self colours of blue, champagne, helio, ivory, sunburn, white and light grey.
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C1. Designating a product applied to the skin to reduce or counteract the effects of sunburn, as sunburn cream, sunburn lotion, etc.
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1880 Young Eng. 2 Oct. 640/2 A sunburn lotion prepared by Mr. Mohun, of Herne Bay.
1948 Life 20 Dec. 20/2 The faces of the survivors, smeared with white sunburn cream.
1972 N.Y. Times 13 Feb. x. 39/3 For this kind of sailing, you need no fancy clothes—just boat shoes,..lots of sunburn oil and a hat.
2013 Ayr (Queensland) Advocate (Nexis) 6 Sept. 14 Parents should not forget stinger suits, sunburn cream, a hat, club cap and pink rash singlet.
C2. General attributive and parasynthetic (in sense 1a).
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1896 Outing Aug. 370/2 ‘Why, yes, of course,’ said Eve, immediately deserting the sunburn cure.
1923 Vogue Aug. 116/3 Sand coloured or sunburn coloured stockings.
1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 201 You watch sunburn blotches develop with the speed of a polaroid print along Kerrie's buttocks.
2015 K. Tietje & B. Zajac Nat. Remedies for Kids iii. 101 The best sunburn treatment is prevention.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sunburnv.
/ˈsʌnbəːn/, U.S. /ˈsənˌbərn/ 1. transitive. To cause (the skin or a body part) to become red, inflamed, or sore by excessive exposure to the sun; to affect with sunburn. Also in extended use and figurative.In the 18th cent. apparently only attested in oaths and imprecations (in optative with no subject expressed); cf. damn v. 6.The use in quot. 1611 may be sense 2a.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > afflict with or cause a skin disorder [verb (transitive)] > sunburn
sunburn1530
the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > making or becoming brown > make brown [verb (transitive)] > by scorching
sunburn1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. ccclxviv/1 I sonne burne my face: Je me hasle le visarge.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Haler, to Sunne-burne or scorch in the Sunne; to bleak, or make swart, a thing, by displaying it in a hot Sunne.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 1 Hot dayes, which haue Sun-burnt my lines, aswell as face.
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all ii. 13 My Aunt charg'd me not to pull off my Glove for fear of Sun-burning my hand.
1705 C. Cibber Careless Husband ii. 18 Now I wou'd not, Sun-burn me if I wou'd.
1753 S. Smythies Stage-coach I. i. i. 10 Yes, sunburn her! so she did.
1805 E. Clark Banks of Douro III. iii. 68 The scorching rays had sun-burnt his face.
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 218 The Venetians..sunburn all their hermits into splendid russet brown.
1909 G. Guinness Peru v. 45 The dry season has sunburnt the hillsides.
1970 Stud. Philol. 67 81 The beams of the natural sun..sunburnt the skin only superficially.
2012 A. Gibbs Dark Heroine i. 4 His arms were..covered in red blotches, as though he had been badly sunburnt.
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a. intransitive. Of a person, the skin, or a part of the body: to be or become red, inflamed, or sore by excessive exposure to the sun; to be affected by sunburn.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > tan > [verb (intransitive)]
sunburn1530
tan1530
the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > making or becoming brown > become brown [verb (intransitive)] > by scorching
sunburn1530
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > be subjected or exposed to heat or fire [verb (intransitive)] > suffer damage or injury by heat or fire > by sun
sunburn1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. ccclxviv/1 I sonne burne, as ones face, or their handes do that the sonne shyneth moche apon, je hasle.
1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxix. 640 An Indian will ‘sunburn’ as much or even more than a white man.
1928 Daily Mail 6 Aug. 12/6 One girl tells me she ‘doesn't sunburn easily’.
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File i. 14 He had a clear complexion that sunburnt easily.
2013 Pocono Record (Stroudsburg, Pa.) (Nexis) 25 June If you normally sunburn after 20 minutes in the sun without sunscreen, an SPF 30 product will protect your skin for close to 10 hours.
b. intransitive. Of plant tissue: to be damaged by the sun. Cf. sunburn n. 2.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > be diseased, injured, or discoloured [verb (intransitive)]
burn?1523
blast1580
slaya1642
smut1657
fire1693
mowburn1707
go1735
strike1742
curl1793
gum1794
sunburn1833
French1836
rust1839
shank1848
houseburn1850
1833 J. Wilson in Trans. Hortic. Soc. 1 iii. 211 If the sun be bright, the leaves would sun-burn in a short time.
1891 L. H. Bailey Nursery-bk. v. 85 Care must be exercised not to cut out so much the first year that the inner branches will sunburn.
1988 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 30 Sept. If it is damaged by low mowing recovery will be slow, and if conditions are hot it's likely the exposed area will be sunburnt and permanently damaged.
2016 Public Opinion (Nexis) 26 May a10 Putting houseplants in full sun will cause the leaves to photooxidize or sunburn because the leaves have become adapted to low light levels inside the house.
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