Usually means: Darkening skin using light exposure.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. tanning: Merriam-Webster
  2. tanning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tanning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tanning: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tanning: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tanning, tanning: Wordnik
  7. tanning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tanning: Wiktionary
  9. tanning: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tanning: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tanning: Dictionary.com
  12. tanning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Tanning (leather), Tanning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Tanning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tanning: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. tanning: Rhymezone
  17. Tanning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. tanning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. tanning: FreeDictionary.org
  20. tanning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. tanning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tanning: Financial dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tanning: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. tanning: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tanning: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. tanning: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tanning: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tanning: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See tan as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the easily decomposing skins of animals.
noun:  The acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially.
noun:  (informal) A spanking.

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