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sunburning

sunburning is the present participle and gerund of sunburn.

Meaning of sunburn

Verb

sunburn (third-person singular simple present sunburns, present participle sunburning, simple past and past participle sunburned or (chiefly Commonwealth) sunburnt)

  1. (intransitive) To receive a sunburn.
    • I have brought
      Your grace a Salamanders skin, to keep you
      From sun-burning.c. 1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, London: D.N. and T.C., 1678, Act V, Scene 2, p. 64
  2. (transitive) To burn or tan (someone's skin) by the sun; to allow (a part of one's body) to become sunburnt.
    • My Aunt charg’d me not to pull off my Glove for fear of Sun-burning my hand.1668, John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, London: H. Herringman, act II, page 11

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Questions about sunburning

What is sunburning the present participle and gerund of?
Sunburning is the present participle and gerund of sunburn.

Words near sunburning in the dictionary

  1. sunbrowned
  2. sunbunnies
  3. sunbunny
  4. sunburn
  5. sunburned
  6. sunburning
  7. sunburnlike
  8. sunburns
  9. sunburnt
  10. sunburntness
  11. sunburst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunburning (page history and authors); sunburn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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