chapped — English Dictionary

Adjective

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

   Usage

   • of skin

   Synonyms

   crackedrough

   Examples

   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.

   More examples (1)

   His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.

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

   Usage

   • In compounds

   Examples

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

Adjective

1. used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure

   Synonyms

   crackedroughened

   Examples

   chapped lips