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to sunburn

to sunburn

4 1.1
To get red and sore skin from too much sun
  • verb
  • /ˈsʌnˌbɜrn/
translation icon : quemarse
  • In the summer, we get sunburned sitting in the living room.
  • get sunburned
  • badly sunburned
  • sunburned easily

I was like, they got sunburned on day one.

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Examples

  • Everybody knows you can still get sunburned on a cloudy day.

  • He forgot to apply lotion, so he ended up getting sunburned after just a few hours outside.

  • I was like, they got sunburned on day one.

  • "I must have got sunburned yesterday on the boat."

    Fiction book (1996)
  • My stomach will get sunburned, and my mom will get mad.

  • The best I could do was manage not to get sunburned.

    Blog text (20)
  • I sunburn really easily!

  • In simplest terms, if I face the sun, my face gets sunburned.

    Blog text (12)
  • If I tilt the top of my head towards the sun, my bald spot gets sunburned.

    Blog text (12)
  • "You don't want to get sunburned," Horace told him.

    Fiction book (2001)

Synonyms

to burn
vsto sunburn
706 1.8

To feel a hot, stinging pain after heat or chemicals

refers only to reddened or blistered skin from excessive sun ultraviolet exposure

How Severe

to scar
15 3.4
to peel
126 1.0
to blister
15 3.5
to sunburn
4 1.1
to redden
11 3.7

Surface Forms

sunburn infinitive
sunburned past
sunburned past participle
sunburning present participle
sunburns third person singular

Etymology

Sunburn as a verb comes from the same parts sun and burn, and means 'to be burned by the sun'. So to sunburn is to get red or blistered skin after too much sun.