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windburnt

windburnt is the alternative form of windburned.

Meaning of windburned

Adjective

windburned (comparative more windburned, superlative most windburned)

  1. Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn.
    • 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.1916, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Lord Northcliffe’s War Book, New York: George H. Doran, ‘What to Send “Your Soldier”,’ p. 55
  2. Of plants: dried or damaged by the wind.
    • The morning air blew down a fragrant whiff,
      Combing the wind-burnt grasses on the cliff.1870 July, Charles Warren Stoddard, “Sail Ho!”, in The Overland Monthly, volume 5, number 1, page 30

Forms of windburnt

comparativemore windburnt
superlativemost windburnt

Origin of windburnt

From wind + burnt.

Questions about windburnt

What is windburnt the alternative form of?
Windburnt is the alternative form of windburned.

Words near windburnt in the dictionary

  1. windbreaks
  2. windburn
  3. windburned
  4. windburning
  5. windburns
  6. windburnt
  7. windcap
  8. windcapped
  9. windcaps
  10. windcatcher
  11. windcatchers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: windburnt (page history and authors); windburned (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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