chapped

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/t͡ʃæpt/

adjective

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

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crackedroughroughenedunsmooth
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Meanings

adjectivechapped (comparative more chapped, superlative most chapped)

comparative more chapped · superlative most chapped

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

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

    2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y: Vintage Books, page 134
    2 more 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 […]

    1854, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Healthy skin: a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management

    […] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.

    1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

    Synonyms: cracked, rough

  2. in compoundsHaving 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 Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of chap

Synonyms & antonyms

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

Similar
crackedrough

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveused of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure

Similar
crackedroughenedroughunsmooth
Also see
cracked

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Arabic مُشَقَّق
  • مُشَقَّق (mušaqqaq)of skin: dry and flaky
Bulgarian напукан
  • напукан (napukan)of skin: dry and flaky
Czech popraskaný
  • popraskanýof skin: dry and flaky
Finnish rohtunut
  • rohtunutof skin: dry and flaky
French gercé
  • gercéof skin: dry and flaky
German aufgesprungen, rissig
  • aufgesprungenof skin: dry and flaky
  • rissigof skin: dry and flaky
Hungarian cserepes, kicserepesedett
  • cserepesof skin: dry and flaky
  • kicserepesedettof skin: dry and flaky
  • repedezettof skin: dry and flaky
Italian screpolato
  • screpolatoof skin: dry and flaky
Latin rīmōsus
  • rīmōsusof skin: dry and flaky
Māori pātotoi, tāpā
  • pātotoiof skin: dry and flaky
  • tāpāof skin: dry and flaky
  • raupāof skin: dry and flaky
Polish spierzchły, spierzchnięty
  • spierzchłyof skin: dry and flaky
  • spierzchniętyof skin: dry and flaky
Russian обве́тренный, потрескавшийся
  • обве́тренный (obvétrennyj)of skin: dry and flaky
  • потрескавшийся (potreskavšijsja)of skin: dry and flaky
Spanish agrietado
  • agrietadoof skin: dry and flaky

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with chapped

aptwrappedadaptcappedtappedgappedclappedraptflappedhappedbelappedperiapt
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Cite this entry
APA

chapped. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chapped

MLA

“chapped.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chapped. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chapped,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chapped.

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