chapped

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
19
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/t͡ʃæpt/

Definition of chapped

3 senses · 2 parts of speech

adj

  1. Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.
    “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.”
    “His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.”
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adj

  1. Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.
    “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.”
    “His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.”
  2. (in-compounds)Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.
    “This wide-chopt-raſcall, would thou mightſt lye drowning the waſhing of ten Tides.”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of chap

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