chapped

Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.

Adjective

  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 […] - 1854, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Healthy skin: a popular...
    • […] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold. - 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
    • His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe. - 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y: Vintage Books, page 134:

    Synonyms: cracked rough

  2. Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.
    • This wide-chopt-raſcall, would thou mightſt lye drowning the waſhing of ten Tides. - 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First...

Forms

more chapped most chapped

Derived

unchapped windchapped

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of chap