windburned

windburned

English

Alternative forms

• windburnt

Etymology

wind +‎ burned

Adjective

windburned (comparative more windburned, superlative most windburned)

1. Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn.
   • 1916, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Lord Northcliffe’s War Book, New York: George H. Doran, ‘What to Send “Your Soldier”,’ p. 55,

     Vaseline is a good gift. It can be used for may purposes. It serves as a lubricant. It eases feet that have marched far. It is good for burns. It relieves the pain of sunburnt or windburnt skin.

   • 1925, Zane Grey, Captives of the Desert, Roslyn, NY: Walter J. Black, Chapter 13,

     A more vivid red mounted the boy’s windburned face.

   • 1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, 1982, Chapter , p. 193,

     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. Of plants: dried or damaged by the wind.
   • 1870, Charles Warren Stoddard, “Sail Ho!”, The Overland Monthly, Volume 5, No. 1, July, 1870, p. 30,

     The morning air blew down a fragrant whiff,

     Combing the wind-burnt grasses on the cliff.

   • 1939, California Garden, Volume 31, No. 5, November 1939, p. 7,

     […] 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.