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frostburned

frostburned adjective: afflicted with frostburn.

Adjective

frostburned (comparative more frostburned, superlative most frostburned)

  1. Afflicted with frostburn.
    • Now I had heard of hunting slaves with blood-hounds, but never thought of actually seeing such a chase. Sympathy for the fugitive, quickened by impulsive, wrath against his pursuer, whoever he might be, shook me through; and when the dogs doing the baying burst out of the woods, half a dozen of...1906, Lew Wallace, Lew Wallace; an Autobiography, page 359
    • His frostburned face glowed with a wild joy as he shook his flintlock in the direction of the firing.1945, George Tracy Marsh, Ask No Quarter, page 20

Forms of frostburned

comparativemore frostburned
superlativemost frostburned

Origin of frostburned

From frostburn + -ed.

Questions about frostburned

What does frostburned mean?
Frostburned means afflicted with frostburn.
What part of speech is frostburned?
Frostburned is an adjective.

Words near frostburned in the dictionary

  1. frostbound
  2. frostbow
  3. frostbows
  4. Frostburg
  5. frostburn
  6. frostburned
  7. frostburns
  8. froste
  9. frosted
  10. frosted heart
  11. frosted liver

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