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Tanning
/ˈtænɪŋ/
To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
📖 Definitions of "Tanning"
verb
- 1
To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
"No matter how long I stay out in the sun, I never tan. though I do burn."
- 2
To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner.
- 3
To spank or beat.
noun
- 1
The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the skins of animals, which do.
- 2
The acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially.
- 3
A spanking.
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