to sunburn
- verb
- /ˈsʌnˌbɜrn/
- 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.
- I was like, they got sunburned on day one.
- You can get sunburned, you can have all sorts of other things happen to you.
- If you guys follow me on Twitter or like Snapchat, you might have seen that I got sunburnt like in my parting, like my hairline got sunburnt.
Examples
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Everybody knows you can still get sunburned on a cloudy day.
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He forgot to apply lotion, so he ended up getting sunburned after just a few hours outside.
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I was like, they got sunburned on day one.
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"I must have got sunburned yesterday on the boat."
Fiction book (1996) -
My stomach will get sunburned, and my mom will get mad.
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The best I could do was manage not to get sunburned.
Blog text (20) -
I sunburn really easily!
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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 feel a hot, stinging pain after heat or chemicals
How Severe
Surface Forms
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.