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tanning

tanning

34 2.4
Skin becomes darker after being in the sun
  • noun
  • /ˈtænɪŋ/
translation icon : bronceado
  • She prefers natural tanning rather than using tanning beds to enhance her complexion.

So this is the first time in tanning in hello.

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Examples

  • Many people visit a tanning salon to achieve a sun-kissed glow before summer.

  • Controversy remains over the risks involved with indoor tanning, especially in children and young adults.

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  • I just got done tanning.

  • I went to a tanning salon.

  • If you are thinking about spray tanning, there are some additional things that you should know about.

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  • Her skin glowed with a rich darkness among the tanning bodies around them.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Besides, at three-thirty in the afternoon, the best tanning rays were past.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • According to recent research, first exposure to tanning beds in youth increases melanoma risk by 75 percent.

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  • Why don't you come down to the tanning salon and I can hook you up with some free tans?

  • The dangerous effects of excessive tanning can lead to premature aging of the skin.

Synonyms

darkening
vstanning
6 3.7

A change when something becomes less light in color

is the skin color change from ultraviolet light rather than any general color loss
suntanning
vstanning
1 2.7

The activity of staying in the sun to make your skin darker

is the natural skin color change from ultraviolet light rather than a deliberate act
melanization
vstanning
  • Specialized
8.9

Darkening of skin or an insect shell when it gets more pigment

is the skin color change caused by ultraviolet light rather than general pigment buildup
melanogenesis
vstanning
  • Specialized
9.9

The process that makes melanin pigment in the skin and hair

is the skin color change from ultraviolet exposure rather than the internal pigment production

Antonyms

50 3.2

To make something lighter in color, often using chemicals or sunlight

8 2.8

Make or become more white in color

Compounds

A group of businesses that turn animal skins into leather

A group of businesses that offer ways to darken the skin, like spray tans and sunbeds

How Tanned

tan
122 1.0
tanning
34 2.4
paleness
3 4.3

Surface Forms

tanning singular
tannings plural

Morphology

tanning = tan (transparent) = tan + ing

Standard gerund/nominalization of the verb 'tan' meaning to become brown in sunlight; meaning is directly inferable from the base verb.

Etymology

Tanning (sun) comes from the word tan used in making leather, because the sun makes skin go 'brown' the way hides turn brown when they are tanned. So to tan in the sun is to make your skin look like tanned 'leather'.