Definitions for tanning

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tanning tan·ning

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IPA: /ˈtæn ɪŋ/

Tanning is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in tanning (aginnnt).

Definitions for tanning

noun

1. the process or art of converting hides or skins into leather.
2. a browning or darkening of the skin, as by exposure to the sun.
3. Informal. a thrashing; whipping.
4. the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
5. yellowish brown; light brown.
6. tanbark.

Idioms

1. tan someone's hide, Informal. to beat someone soundly:

adjective

1. of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
2. used in or relating to tanning processes, materials, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
2. to make brown by exposure to ultraviolet rays, as of the sun.
3. Informal. to thrash; spank.

verb (used without object)

1. to become tanned.

Origin of tanning

First recorded in 1475-85; tan¹, + -ing¹

Examples for tanning

His silence was “uncool and unprofessional,” as Dr. tanning put it.

What have you to do with the beating of skins and the tanning of leather?'

The bark, too, is excellent for tanning—almost equal to that of the oak.

But there were other reasons why he was ordered to leave the tanning business.

The ambulantes are the sweat-on-the-brow beach hawkers who carry a variety of goods directly to your tanning spot.

Here's hoping Pauly D waits a few years before popping his tot in a tanning bed.

In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics called for an outright ban on use of tanning beds by minors.

He had killed several deer and was tanning the hides at the time we arrived.

Hides are also tanned by the use of chemicals, in what is called "chrome" tanning.

I haunted her building and searched for her gym—even her tanning salon.