Chapped - What does it mean?
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(chap)
(of skin) dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface
* 1854 Sir Erasmus Wilson - Healthy skin: a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management
* 1913 ,
chapped
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)- For chapped' lips, or '''chapped''' nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, ... / For severely ' chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor ...
- [...] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.
