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chapped

adj
/t͡ʃæpt/

Definitions

  1. Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.

    • For chapped lips, or chapped nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, […] / For severely chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor […]
    • […] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.
    • His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.

  2. Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.

    • This wide-chopt-raſcall, would thou mightſt lye drowning the waſhing of ten Tides.

  3. simple past and past participle of chap

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA