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sunburns

sunburns is the plural of sunburn.

sunburns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sunburn.

Meaning of sunburn

Noun

sunburn (countable and uncountable, plural sunburns)

  1. A burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.
  2. A burn on the tissue of crop plants or their fruits (especially if they are rich in water like tomatoes, grapes, apples, gooseberries) caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.
    Synonyms:
    sunscald
  3. (rare) Suntan.
    • The neutral colours showed off her café au lait sunburn.1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 22, in Diamonds Are Forever

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Phrases with sunburns

Questions about sunburns

What is sunburns the plural of?
Sunburns is the plural of sunburn.

Words near sunburns in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunburns (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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