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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
chapped (comparative more chapped, superlative most chapped)
- (of skin) Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.
- Synonyms: cracked, rough
1854, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Healthy skin: a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management: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
2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y: Vintage Books, page 134:His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.
- (in combination) Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 1:This wide-chopt-raſcall, would thou mightſt lye drowning the waſhing of ten Tides.
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Verb
chapped
- simple past and past participle of chap
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