Definitions for sunburn

sunburn sun·burn

Spelling: [suhn-burn]
IPA: /ˈsʌnˌbɜrn/

Sunburn is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in sunburn (bnnrsuu).

Definitions for sunburn

noun

  1. inflammation of the skin caused by overexposure to the sun or a sunlamp.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to affect or be affected with sunburn:

Origin of sunburn

First recorded in 1520-30; sun + burn1

Examples for sunburn

Some of it was sunburn, and some of it was rye, I expect, but he was glad to see all of us.

Nor could she be certain that his coloring was due to sunburn.

Here's one way to avoid a sunburn: wear a Face-Kini next time you're on the beach.

Some of their necks and cheeks were peeling, as if from sunburn.

My face was just skinned with sunburn, and the salt air made it worse.

His face was thin and the sunburn faded, as though he had been ill.

I had no idea that sunburn was so becoming to a girl's complexion.

The touch of sunburn, too, was becoming, for she didn't freckle.

Seth colored, under his coat of sunburn, and seemed embarrassed.

I had also found out that I had a complexion, and that sunburn was not becoming.

Word Value for sunburn
Scrable

9

Words with friends

14

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