Usually means: Skin irritation caused by wind.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. windburn: Merriam-Webster
  2. windburn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. windburn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. windburn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. windburn: Vocabulary.com
  6. windburn: Wiktionary
  7. windburn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. windburn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. windburn: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. windburn: Dictionary.com
  11. Windburn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. windburn: Rhymezone
  13. windburn: FreeDictionary.org
  14. windburn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. windburn: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. windburn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. windburn: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Windburn: MedFriendly Glossary
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  4. windburn: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. windburn: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See windburned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (medicine) An irritation of the skin caused by exposure to the wind.
noun:  Damage to a plant caused by cold and windy conditions that dry out the leaves.

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