reddening, inflammation, and, in severe cases, blistering and peeling of the skin caused by overexposure to the ultraviolet rays of the sun:my hands and face were raw with sunburn [count noun]:the sunburns on them stopped halfway up their foreheads
verb (sunburns, sunburning, past and past participle sunburned or sunburnt)
(be (or get) sunburned)
suffer from sunburn:most of us managed to get sunburnt
(as adjective sunburned or sunburnt) tanned; brown from exposure to the sun:a handsome sunburned face
[no object] suffer from sunburn:a complexion that sunburnt easily
sunburn in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of sunburn in the US English dictionary
