windburned

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of people or body parts

   Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn.

   • A more vivid red mounted the boy’s windburned face.
   • I am woken by a pounding on the door of my apartment. It is a man with a lantern, windburnt, gaunt, out of breath, in a solder’s greatcoat too large for him.
2. 2

   Of plants

   Of plants: dried or damaged by the wind.

   • The morning air blew down a fragrant whiff, Combing the wind-burnt grasses on the cliff.
   • […] the same general rules apply to wind-burned trees as to those injured by frost. You should wait until the full extent of the injury is apparent before cutting back.
   • 2005, Anne and Simon Harrap, Orchids of Britain and Ireland, London: A&C Black, 2nd edition, “Lindisfarne Helleborine,” p. 124, By flowering time many leaves are wind-burnt, grazed or otherwise damaged.

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