sunburn
English
Etymology
From Middle English *sunne burnen, *sonne brennen, *sunne brennen (suggested by derivatives sonne brennynge, sunne brennynge (“sunburn”, literally “sun-burning”) and sunne brente (“sunburnt”), equivalent to sun + burn. Compare West Frisian sinnebrân (“sunburn”), Dutch zonnebrand (“sunburn”), German Sonnenbrand (“sunburn”), Swedish solbränna (“sunburn”), and Icelandic sólbruni (“sunburn”), as well as Old English sunbryne (“sunburn”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
sunburn (countable and uncountable, plural sunburns)
- A burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.
- A burn on the tissue of crop plants or their fruits (especially if they are rich in water like tomatoes, grapes, apples, gooseberries) caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.
- Synonym: sunscald
Related terms
Translations
burn on skin
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burn on plant — see sunscald
Verb
sunburn (third-person singular simple present sunburns, present participle sunburning, simple past and past participle sunburned or (mostly Commonwealth) sunburnt)
- (intransitive) To receive a sunburn.
- c. 1613 John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, London: D.N. and T.C., 1678, Act V, Scene 2, p. 64,[1]
- I have brought
- Your grace a Salamanders skin, to keep you
- From sun-burning.
- 1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, No. 81, 28 December, 1724, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, Volume 2, p. 199,[2]
- […] there is a a Country, in the World, call’d Turkey; where Women are secur’d against the Danger of Sun-burning, by being kept out of the open Air, and lock’d up, like other Jewels, in Places where no Mischief can reach ’em.
- 2012, Greg Grant, Texas Fruit & Vegetable Gardening, Minneapolis: Cool Springs Press, →ISBN, pages 148–149:
- All foliage is necessary in Texas to keep the tomato fruit from sunburning.
- c. 1613 John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, London: D.N. and T.C., 1678, Act V, Scene 2, p. 64,[1]
- (transitive) To burn or tan (someone's skin) by the sun; to allow (a part of one's body) to become sunburnt.
- 1668, John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, London: H. Herringman, Act II, p. 11,[3]
- My Aunt charg’d me not to pull off my Glove for fear of Sun-burning my hand.
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 3:
- As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert […]
- 1989, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, New York: Harper and Row, Chapter 7, p. 95,[4]
- “Oh shoot, I’ve sunburned the top half of my boobs,” she said, frowning down her chest.
- 1668, John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, London: H. Herringman, Act II, p. 11,[3]
Translations
to receive a sunburn
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