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Vinony

chapped

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæpt/

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.”

  2. Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.

    “This wide-chopt-raſcall, would thou mightſt lye drowning the waſhing of ten Tides.”

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of chap