to freckle
3
4.4
To get small light brown spots on the skin after being in the sun
- verb
- /ˈfrɛkəl/
:
cubrirse de pecas
- As summer approached, she noticed that her skin would freckle more quickly with each sunny day.
- lightly freckled
- freckled skin
- freckled face
Examples
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After spending the day at the beach, I began to freckle on my cheeks.
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If you stay in the sun too long, you may freckle easily.
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Sun's hot, and I freckle.
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Her skin was only lightly freckled.
Fiction book (1995) -
His wrists and arms were freckled.
Fiction book (1996) -
Her pale-brown skin is lightly freckled; her eyes are troubled but golden, clear gold.
Fiction book (1999) -
He's a redhead, and even his eyes are freckled.
Fiction book (1992) -
Her nose was freckled.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
to fleck
vsto freckle
10
6.0
To mark a surface with small spots of color or light
is specific to small brown skin spots usually caused by sun exposure
to bespeckle
vsto freckle
9.6
To mark something with small spots
is about small brown skin spots that appear often after sun exposure
Idioms
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb freckle comes from the same old idea of being 'spotted', so to freckle is simply to get little 'specks' on your skin after sun exposure.