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chapped (comparative more chapped, superlative most chapped)

  1. (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 []
    • 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
      [] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.
    • 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y: Vintage Books, page 134:
      His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.
  2. (in combination) Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.

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chapped

  1. simple past and past participle of chap

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